[Healeys] #40320 Distributor ?

Chris Dimmock austin.healey at gmail.com
Mon May 7 23:12:20 MDT 2012


Hi Alan,
Larry said he had an A70 distributor in an A70 engine he had temporarily
fitted in his 100 many years ago.
The A70 distributor was very, very agricultural - probably more agricultural
than the DVX4!!!!
Best
Chris

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On 08/05/2012, at 12:14 PM, Alan Seigrist <healey.nut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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


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