Thanks Russell but it's all sorted now.

I finally got time to have a fiddle on the land rover. After being dumb founded why it would not start at all I realised it had been running so rich that it had drained all 20L of fuel in just idling ! New fuel in and fired her up with her chugg chugg chugg idle. Pulled number 2 plug lead and straight way no change. Weird I thought and flukey that it was the first I pulled. Tried the others and they all stalled the engine. Pulled the plug and the electrode bit where the lead plugs on had undone ! So I put a new plug in, fired her up and she idles silky smooth. Idles at 550, set the timing to 6deg with vac connected and everything seems great. Revs up smooth. There's an occasional miss on cylinder 1 which actually caused my timing light to not show the timing marks. Bit strange, like it fired at the wrong time or something ?

New problem now though so I'll start a new thread.

Big thanks to JDNSW who is always replying to my problem threads !

Cheers,

Peter