Righto - may have found the source of the problem. The timing was waay out. The cam gears were correctly set so didn't notice at first but put it up on the hoist to have a look underneath and noticed the position of the harmonic balancer....So am surprised it started and hopefully no damage - funny thing was it idled perfectly. Fingers crossed this is the fix, I have a mechanic mate working on it today so hoping for his call this arvo.
Also noticed that the ball joints foulled ( grinded on the brand new ML320 rotors at 3/4ter steering lock) it has only been around the block once or twice but they will need to be shimmed to fit, or add some ricer negative camber : )
Fuel pump going in today too.
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