A long couple of weeks working on the car and finally made some progress tonight. After flushing, cleaning, rebuilding, part searching/buying and not to mention sorting the heap off mess on the ignition electrics, I got the car started. I'm still not getting any fuel and so had to manually squirt fuel into the carb.
I ran a vacuum pump on the fuel line going from the side of the tank to the lower inlet on the fuel pump and it's blocked. Not in the pipe but in the tank. The other pipe going to the front of the tank and T piece is clear. Should the side pipe be blocked? Any ideas what's going on and why it's not sucking fuel?