DISTRIBUTOR!
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DISTRIBUTOR!
Just coming to the end os a major re-build which has been the usual battle every inch (centimetre?) of the way & about to set up the timing when the old Lucas electronic distributor passed peacefully away. No doubt about it, like the Monty Python parrot, it is deceased. That's the way with transistorized gadgets, they die quietly, leaving no evidence. SO, does anyone out there have an old NON-ELECTRONIC distributor going spare? Perhaps someone who has just fitted one of the hugely expensive new upgrades? The old contact breaker type is easy to understand and can easily be tested & will do me for the low revs that I use. Please check your waste bins. I've torn enough hair out over this job already - I'm sure you've all been there!
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I've got one, however I think you will be looking for someone a little closer to home. The electronic distributors are so much better tho! Set and forget!! Of course, the have to work in the first place
Stirling
Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Xljp6DD9g 17 June
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mlJblv9iUo 24 May
& Others!
Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Xljp6DD9g 17 June
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mlJblv9iUo 24 May
& Others!
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ive got an old points type with female oil pump drive, although said bit is a little worn, & is fitted with an after market electronic dizzy parts, also have a rangy coil for it, if you interested pm with an e-maill add & ill send you some pics of it. works ok i just put in a mallory set up.
why do we do it to our selves!!!
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Thanks for that, Mattv8. Ive been thinking on this & looked at loads of websites & I'm wondering how sensible it is to try & skimp at this stage of a major rebuild. So I've been looking at options - a non- original electronic Lucas type (new) or a hard to blow new Mallory dual point (about which opinions seem to differ) The latter can be converted to electronic at a later date, as no doubt you will know. Either would get me back on the road .
What I would like to try later would be to build/buy an electronic trigger that would run off the old distributor's magnetic pick-up which still works ok. The add-on circuits/systems I have seen so far are for cb systems & not magnetic. Something else to agonize over! If it all goes pear-shaped, I'll bear your offer in mind!
What I would like to try later would be to build/buy an electronic trigger that would run off the old distributor's magnetic pick-up which still works ok. The add-on circuits/systems I have seen so far are for cb systems & not magnetic. Something else to agonize over! If it all goes pear-shaped, I'll bear your offer in mind!
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I've just done the reverse - got a brand new (but dusty) Joe Lucas CB Dizzy to replace the old Opus one. NO SPARK!!! I hesitate to confess this, but it was a FUSE all along! So the old Opus that everyone slags off survived my shorting it & is in perfect working order...........well, it DID need replacing - mechanical wear etc. Proves the old adage - "No fool like an old (Land Rover-owning) fool. DON't tell my Wife!!!