[Healeys] #40320 Distributor ?

[Alan Seigrist]

Larry -

No, that early type on the 100 is still a one piece housing and shaft
housing unit (DM2), not a two piece like the DVX4.   I shelved my DVX4
and put on a Pertonix dizzy on the A90.  Jeff at Advanced Distributors
was actually sort of bummed out I didn't give him my DVX4 to rebuild,
I sort of understood how he felt....

Best.

Alan


> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:25 AM, Larry Varley <varley at cosmos.net.au> wrote:
>>
>> Chris, was that the early type were the vacuum advance unit was completely
external, and used to rotate the entire body of the distributor to achieve
advance? If so they were a real shocker once everything started to wear. There
was one on an old Austin A70 motor I had to use in my Healey years ago while I
was rebuilding the Healey engine  ( back in the days the Healey was my only
transport ). The distributor used to wobble constantly!
>> Cheers
>> Larry
>>
>>
>> On 8/05/2012 1:20 AM, Chris Dimmock wrote:
>>>
>>> http://www.a90atlantic.com/index.php/technical-info-s
>>> Click on distributor.
>>> On A90 Atlantic the DM2 40320 was fitted from May 1951. Clamp had 1 bolt
not
>>> 2.
>>> Yes, earlier production of A90 Atlantic was different.
>>> Best
>>> Chris
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On 07/05/2012, at 5:57 PM, Alan Seigrist<healey.nut at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hmm weird.  My Saloon was made on or around August '51 and it had the
old
>>>
>>> DVX4 dizzy on it....  but who knows.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Chris Dimmock<austin.healey at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.a90atlantic.com/index.php/technical-info-s
>>>> Click on distributor.
>>>> On A90 Atlantic the DM2 40320 was fitted from May 1951. Clamp had 1 bolt
not
>>>
>>> 2.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, earlier production of A90 Atlantic was different.
>>>> Best
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone