Newbie With Dad's Montesa Cota 247 X 2

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Hi all,

I have tasked myself with getting my dad's old Montesa Cota 247 running and riding again.

The bike was bought years ago and spent most of it's time in his shed collecting dust. I dragged it out a few years ago and kicked it over, kicks over fine but would not start. I put it back with a promise to try get it going again.

So that day came today, got it back out. Both tyres are flat and it needs some work. We are going to try get her running and riding again and then strip it down and make it look like new

This is the bike in current form

So checked the oil, looks OK, kicked it over a few times and everything seems to be free. I removed the HT lead and went into remove the plug... 20mm spanner? which I do not have... You can imagine looking down and just seeing the empty space where it once lived So dug out an old spark plug, put it on and kicked the bike, nothing.

So went to the other Montesa Cota 247 we have and removed the coil, removed the tank and coil from this bike and replaced. The coil I fitted was the old screw tyre on top of the plug which was fun, fitted this and still the same. I have put fresh fuel in the old girl and made sure the tap was opened. While kicking you can smell the fuel.

That is the original coil fitted. I have removed that one.

I have loads of questions and this is the first bike I have ever worked on.

This was my last project

A couple questions I have straight away....

Do we need to mix the fuel? ie put lead replacement into the unleaded fuel?

What oil does these bikes use?

Where is the oil filter... or is there not one?

Any ideas why we are not getting a spark?

We are based in Somerset UK and half tempted to find a local bike guy to get her up and running and I will do the cosmetics.

Anyway, any comments welcome... Interested to know what we have etc... Does the parts look original? Like I said, it is my dad's bikes... He had them back in the 70's and bought these for a reminder of his youth...mid life crisis haha