Hi Bruce,
I removed the top muffler clamp and pushed the top of the muffler foward to clear the hole as the bottom clamp looked a bugger to get back on again. No difference in the way it ran.
Confession time.. I couldnt help play a bit and I now have a black and a brown wire near the carby no longer connected to anything. If left open I have spark when cranking if closed no spark. And in the carby there doesent appear to be any float valve. There is a float and a pivot but no valve to stop the flow of petrol which now leaks out of the black primer button, think I let something drop ?