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Check earth wires body to gearbox. Then, remove starter and try to see if the bush for the starter nose in the gearbox is intact. The slow starter is usually this bush, a faulty starter, or bad earths.
Even the earth wire from the battery to the body can go dodgy on you.

thanks will have a look at that

Starter motor by the sounds of it.

It also acts as a kind of electrical junction box as well, i only found this out last year when mine finally gave up and we coasted to a halt on the A13. Replace it and i reckon your woes will go away.

When you test the spark though what colour is it ?

Right. Van starts up fine once the starter manages to spin round. Still sluggish though Turn engine off and try to restart and starter is sluggish but eventually spins and fires up the engine.

Havent delved into the starter yet but Im assuming this is def more of a starter problem than an ignition problem??

Any more thoughts??

you may well have two problems... but we didnt know that......

if the van has been stood for a good while it may just be bad connections,
take the main wire off the starter( after disconnecting the neg off the battery) and give it a good clean up, then as Laurie said, check your earths, the nose mount on the gearbox is the most important one , its where the starter gets its main earth connection from and the battery earth, and if none of that helps, its either the starter, or the timing is too far advanced........

will give it a bash

It was the timing!!

Got the hometune guy round today and he said it was right out. All sorted now.

Cheers for all your advice guys

Until the next time.....