So, weekend progress. Fuel Pump changed and temporary vacuum pipes fitted for wipers.
Time - 15 minutes ( I had prepared my copper pipes whilst watching TV
One of the issues I had been suffering was that when turned off the truck; I would get a trickle of a oily petrol from the overflow pipe of the fuel tank - so can only assume that whatever was wrong with my old fuel pump resulted in that. I did find a small hole in the pipe which I will repair with liquid metal but more importantly since the new pump went in, no weird fuel mix or leak from tank. I can confirm that NO petrol has gone into the oil at any point.
Next stage, I sourced new copper pipe for the fuel pump to carb and will direct the pipe away from the heat whilst adding a fire sleeve. I will also reroute the pump to wiper copper pipe to follow near it's original route. Once the old late WW2 fuel pump makes it back to MidwestMilitary I will get John to send me the correct heat shield which I will cover with heat reflecting wrap.
Wet patches around plugs is sea foam, soaking ready to replace.
Temp rubber pipe connection to wiper pipe and manifold correctly connected to input on vacuum section of fuel pump
Will be painting engine bay and restoring the exteriors of the air filter, oil reservior and the generator - really going to dress the whole engine.