Today I roughly put the carburetors together and got them mounted. It was a little tough, so I ended up removing the air filter boots to get everything in place.

With a little gasoline and the flick of a switch and the XJ came to life. It immediately rev'd up to 4k rpm, so I cut the choke. Then started it a few more times using the throttle to keep it between 1.5 and 2k rpm.

There is still quite a bit of work to get it running smooth. First of all, I'll need to get all the gaskets for the petcock and fuel filter replaced so that I don't end up with big puddles of gasoline in the garage again.

So, until next weekend. I think I am done.