went to start it and it fired up first time, no probs and idled fine. i went richer like you said. but high end is still lean, either that or its a very very loud, very high pitched rich setting. either way it dont sound right. i did go richer on both needles.

out of interest, can rich(or base) settings kill glow plugs as i've heard that people have to replace glow plugs after break-in. or is that just the break in process.
its just i've already gone through 2 glow plugs and im my last one and dont want to kill that off aswell.