[Healeys] Advance Mech. Question BN1

[Alan Seigrist]

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 at 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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Alan

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