[Healeys] Kip Motors rotors

[Alan Seigrist]

Richard -

It sounds to me that your distributor is due for a rebuild (i.e. re-bush),
as it seems there is way too much side to side play on the dizzy shaft.
This is a common failure for Lucas Distributors.  The problem is not your
choice of rotor or cap. You should send your distributor out to jeff at
"Advanced Distributors" for a complete rebuild, or buy a new one outright.
This will fix your problems.

The rotor problems everyone on the list talks about aren't anything like the
failure you describe.  What everyone else is dealing with are rotors that,
on the surface, look in good operating condition but they don't conduct
electricity once they've broken.

Alan

'52 A90
'53 BN1
'64 BJ8

On 7/12/07, Richard Bittmann <edmyed at harbornet.com> wrote:
>
> Gary,
>
> I took some advice I got on the internet and bought 2 rotors from Kip and
> had
> them delivered 2nd day air for $60 thinking my rotor woes were over - not!
> The rotors arrived at 1:30 PM today so I changed the Napa rotor out with
> the
> new one and put the other in the bag for a spare.  This afternoon I drove
> 21
> miles to & from to have the front end aligned and on mile 21 the new rotot
> fell apart litterally in a cloud of plastic bits and brass dust.  Yep,
> another
> rotor failure.
>
> These last 2 failures have left 2 or 3 of the brass "contact lugs" in the
> disty cap with a worn edge.  Should I replace my new correct LUCAS cap? or
> will some wear be tolerated without ill effects?  Looks like it's back to
> Napa
> or somewhere.