[Healeys] Overdrive Solenoid Repros?

[warthodson at aol.com]

 Correction: make that "work correctly".Gary Hodson
    On Wednesday, September 25, 2024 at 06:43:31 PM CDT, warthodson--- via Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:   

  How does one "tweak" the points slightly to make them worm properly?Gary Hodson
    On Wednesday, September 25, 2024 at 04:12:02 PM CDT, Simon Lachlan via Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:   

  
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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