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Re: [Roadsters] distrubitor

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Subject: Re: [Roadsters] distrubitor
From: Linda Jordan <ljordan704@netscape.net>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 08:46:46 -0700
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Are the springs available or anyone know the sizes? I imagine they should be
replaced after awhile.

Linda

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On May 28, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Joe Russo <jrusso07@rochester.rr.com> wrote:

> Weights are the same, springs are different. 7.5 is the non-smog advance
cam.
> For that cam, one spring is real heavy wire and the other is a lighter
weight
> spring. The heavy spring goes on the cam side with the longer slot.  The
> shorter loop of the heavy spring gets connected to the weight not to the
cam
> slot.
>
> Happy Memorial Day
>
> Joe
>
> Sent from my iPad
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> On May 28, 2012, at 1:35 PM, Dana Scribner <dscrib2@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This being Memorial Day I hope everyone has taken the time to thank those
> who
>> gave their lives  so we are able to live ours as we do.  I have been
having
> a
>> problem with the idle on my 1969 2000 SU carb no emission car. I can set
it
>> then go for a ride and when I stop at a light the idle keeps dropping off
> it
>> 100 or less or it stalls. At high idles it's fine. I gave up and took it
> "The
>> Guy" wit 40 plus years on SU knowledge.  Long story short he thought is is
> a
>> distributor problem. I opened it up and there it was a broken spring
> sitting
>> at the bottom. So this leads me to my questions. On the timing lever plate
> it
>> is marked 7.5; I looked at my supply of parts and some are marked 17.5.
>> Why?Are the weights different on the 2 distributors? How do you tell them
>> apart?Are the springs different between  the  one marked 7.5 and the 17.5
>> distributor? How do you tell them apart?Where the vacuum advance is
> attacked
>> to the housing I see the a 17.5 stamped in ink on the 17.5 marked timing
>> lever. Are the 7.5 ones not marked?is the vacuum advance different between
> the
>> 2?  Dana S1969 2000
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