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About 15 years ago I bought a 2F with tranny and transfer from a rolled '82 FJ 60. Was told "it ran". I was going to put all this into a '66 FJ45 but ended up using '77 gear with serious low miles. The '82 2F ended up in the deep woods in an open utility trailer with 3 tarps neatly tied around it and lots of oil squirted into the cylinders. Over the years I robbed a lot of parts off it for other projects. Well last weekend I got bored and went up to my other 5 acres with my skidsteer and hoisted it out. Before too long I found a starter on a shelf in an open shed, 2 sets of manifolds in the attic above my cabinet shop, three aisan carbs, and a non-usa looking points dizzy in a box of stuff. I was missing a lot of nuts, bolts and studs to fit everything together but a couple trips back to the attic, and a spare parts engine for the 11 hp honda on my bandsaw mill yielded most of what I needed. I even found four used manifold gaskets hanging on a nail in a corner. (just might need one)I set about to assembling what I found onto the block. With all the junk around, I was surprised that the hardest thing to find was plug wires. I ended up with a miserable bunch of cracked and frayed stuff from my large collection of flathead ford engines. I had a recent echlin coil from napa that even still had a bracket. I borrowed the battery from my son's boat. He's gone for a week, won't miss it. The 2F was still bolted to the remnants of a stand I made after the purchase. I ratchet strapped it to a steel dolly on caster wheels. Piece of 3/8 air hose stuffed over the inlet threads on the asain, zip tied upwards for a tank. Small plastic funnel and introduced some 50:1 premium chainsaw mix. Sight glass showed a 50/50 split. The oil had looked very clean and was at the full mark. Because I like being safe I set my fire extinguisher next to me on the floor and wired the idle screw and the choke both open about 5%. I kid you not, after about 3 revolutions it roared to life and kept roaring like 2000 rpms and gaining... WTF? I quickly tore the wire off the coil. I decided the vacuum was pulling the secondary open which wasn't wired shut. Now try again.... ROAR! But really healthy (and really loud), once again she wanted to race away, so I jerked the wire again. The wire from battery to coil primary. Why was this thing racing when I had it all set for a tame 30 second high idle run????? Oh yeah, early on I hadn't found the manifold gaskets yet and was just finding studs and bolts to hang the manifolds on with, finger tight and no gasket. So upon firing it was getting it's fuel from the carb and tons of air through the gap between the manifolds and the head. I recipe for a runaway engine! I was greatly encouraged that it started so easily (and that I was right alongside the ignition wire) and will now get a gasket in there and tighten things up a bit. I have a chinese aluminum radiator from a flathead six project and I found 3 thermostats, 2 housings and 2 water pumps for the 2f. I also have a manual oil pressure gauge from a tractor to thread into the oil cooler port for my next startup. What could possibly go wrong?