Greg -
I was just having a look at Jeff's website and noticed he has a picture of
the DM2 advance mechanism on there:
http://www.advanceddistributors.com/2007new/gallerythingie/gallery.php?id=10
Cheers!
Alan
On 8/24/07, Alan Seigrist <healey.nut@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Send it to jeff at advanced distributors. He is very fair with his
> pricing and knows all the lucas dizzys like the back of his hand.
>
> http://www.advanceddistributors.com/
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Alan
>
>
> On 8/24/07, Greg Lemon <glemon@neb.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > Getting away from the riveting discussion of club politics and back to
> > arcane technical discussion of our cars, I have discovered my
> > distributor
> > advance springs were not in tension and so was getting limited advance
> > function, or more procisely a significant amount of mechanical advance
> > at
> > idle, and not enough adjustment or range from there.
> >
> > Anyhow, in the advance mechanism are little brass fulcrums, for want of
> > a
> > better term, that the springs attach to. They have two attachment
> > points
> > one obviously giving more tension and one less, does anyone know which
> > one
> > is the apporpriate one to use? I was on the closer one, so my stretched
> >
> > springs could concievably be fixed by going to the longer attachment
> > point??
> > I also tried drilling an intermediate hole to attach the springs, but
> > the
> > little fulcrum thingies seem to be made of some substance impervious
> > commercially available drill bits.
> >
> > Does anybody sell new springs?? haven't found any at the usual
> > suspects. As
> > I recall it is the early DM2 "dizzy"
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Greg Lemon
> > 54 BN1
> >
> > P.S. I am quite tapped out after the engine rebuild and although there
> > is
> > still money (somewhere) spending it on the car may result in my being
> > single
> > and paying alimony. So please the suggestions of send it to a competent
> >
> > shop to have it rebuilt or buy a new one, while quite possibly the right
> > course of action, are just not in the cards at the moment.
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