Woohoo! it passed.
We ended up draining all the oil out and starting again with fresh. It pumped it through ok with no sign of an air lock and so it was time to get the bike running.
It didn't really need much work to get it running, just connect the battery, connect a fuel can and press the button. Two prods and off it went. The carb started pissing petrol through, but after two sessions of running the carb dry by running the motor with the petrol pipe removed it cleared whatever bit of grit or snot was holding the float bowl open and it was fine (remember your sticking float bowl Smudge?).
Two threads had to be cleaned up using a tap (nothing major), an indicator's wiring was improved and the front brake was taken off and checked and that was mostly all that was required to get it through the MOT.
Happy days
GC
