My Series 2 has been sat for about 5 months, I had taken a lot of the MFi stuff off as I was going to do an EFi conversion, this is now having to wait and ive put the metering unit etc back on so I can run the car.

So far we have only managed to get the car to run on 3 cylinders, it will run for as long as you like providing you keep a bit of throttle on. It is cylinder 2 which is not firing, we have tried using a different lead on this cylinder and still the same happens.

I’m almost certain we have the plug leads in the correct order, but im not so sure about the fuel lines going to each cylinder. So I have taken a pic of the dizzy and the metering unit and numbered each lead/fuel line to what cylinder they are going to. Can someone confirm these are correct, and if so suggest what the problem may be?

A friend suggested there could be a problem with that actual cylinder / piston or whatever, but surely if the piston was stuck somehow, the crank wouldn’t turn over at all would it?? Could it be the dizzy cap maybe? I’ve checked and it seems clean inside. Just cylinder 2 doesn’t want to work at all..