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Its wrong, the insulating washers should be either side of the back plate bracket so that the bolt AND NONE OF THE WIRES of contact breaker spring connects to itStarting from the insidebolt headsteel washercontact breaker springinsulating washerback plate postinsulating washercondenser wireblue/yellow wiresteel washerspring washernut
None whatsover mate, the wires are connected together by the bolt (also to the points spring) but insulated from ground(Back plate post) and you can put them in whatever order is easiest, i was listing from geriatric memory!!
Wired up as Bryanj laid out, starts, revs and ticks over just fine. Take it out on the road and I find I'm back to square one where I've got no pulling power. (The bike not me...... that sound's conceited).My next step is to try to borrow a strobe and check the timing.
Oh dear Rib, what a pain. Are you sure it wasn't that dodgy speedo cable playing up ?