[Healeys] Overdrive Solenoid Repros?

[Simon Lachlan]

Hi,
With reference to the discussion about failing solenoids, for which many
thanks for the replies, I emailed Dave at ODSpares regarding a conversation
we'd had last time I was up there.
He replied:-
"Hi Simon,
The ones to avoid are the ones with a thin reddy brown wire on them. But,
saying that, almost all of them need the points tweaking slightly to make
them work properly and last longer. Even the batch with Lucas electrically
etched onto them (over the Chinese writing) are the same but come in a Lucas
box).
Not very helpful I know.
best regards  
Dave Twigger (ODSpares) 24/09/24"

So that's indicative of something..avoid the "reddy brown wire" versions,
buy a genuine one and make sure it's set correctly. Certainly, over here in
the UK, there's very obvious gap in prices between the units on eBay etcetc
and the ones from our favourite suppliers. Having said that, Dave did say
that one of the latter was peddling the ones with "Lucas" etched over
Chinese script!
Simon

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