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Flinkly

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ok,

so i've started to get to the meat and potatoes of this restoration and noticed that all gt6's came with delco distributors. all but mine that is.

i've got a lucas 41168 D from the 19th week of 1975. is this a tr6 distributor? i haven't been able to find any real good info and searches come up short.

thanks for any help you guys might have like if this will work or where it originally came from.
 

dklawson

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The only 41168 I could find in my list is for '66-68 GT6 and Vitesse. That was a 41168A model. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
 

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Doug is correct, at least according to my Lucas catalogue (in which I have found numerous mistakes, but I think this is ok). I don't currently have my GT6 Spare Parts Catalogue handy (lent to a friend), but my Vitesse 2L Spare Parts Catalogue does list a Lucas distributor as an alternative to the "normal" Delco equipment. So there's no reason why the 41168 shouldn't work ok; in fact, it might be just that bit better than the Delco (at least according to some sources)!
 
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Flinkly

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i never thought about my parts book. in my triumph workshop manual it says delco, and wherever i go to get distributor parts, they are for the delco. where am i supposed to get parts?

this is my first carb and distributor(with points) car if you couldn't tell. from what i've learned recently, the a-d are just slight changes, and should work where an earlier "model" did. i guess i'll go get my parts book and look for myself.
 

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The Lucas 22D6 is indeed what the 41168 is.

You should be able to use the cap and rotor from ANY car using the 22D6. Points... might indeed be the same as used on the Delco (and you should be able to look in the VB catalog to confirm the same part numbers).

It MIGHT also be that you could use the points from any car that runs the 22D6 since it's unlikely that Lucas made different breaker plates through the production run. What's likely to have changed are advance components like the cam, advance springs, and vacuum advance unit.

Looking through my list I show other versions of the 22D6 used on the following cars:
TR250 & TR6 (early '73)
'68-69 Jag XKE (USA)
'73 Jag XJ6
'66 Jag 3.4L
'66-69 Jag 4.2L
'67-73 Aston Martin (Vantage 4L)
 

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Contact Jeff at Advanced Distributors. He has all of the master charts for Lucas. I believe that the 5 digit number indicates the advance curve that is inside of that particular unit. Jeff can tell you exactly what it is and what it's set up for, unless someone change the weights and springs, which is not likely.

https://www.advanceddistributors.com/

Good luck,
 

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Doug, at 5 in the morning I didn't have the time to do any more research other than to grab the shop manual and do a quick check. Thanks for the update, and I think I'll see if I can find one of those critters for mine. Nothing wrong with the Delco that's in there now, but, I've got a feeling that Lucas parts may be easier to come by in the future. Besides, one can never have too many spares. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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dklawson

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5:00 a.m.? You're a better man than I.

My GT6 has the Delco but there's a curious thing about it. The stamped model numbers identify its shell as that of a 4-cylinder unit. The car belonged to my father-in-law and he did work on the distributor... but he says he never replaced the housing. Anyway, I have a Pertronix installed under the cap and the advance plate is a NOS unit from a later model Delco. Hopefully I'm good for life for as much driving as I give the GT6.
 

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Doug, I have to leave for work by 6, hence the 5 o'clock time frame.
I'll have to check both my Delco units to see what the numbers read. My spare engine for the '67 is only about 100 numbers or so away from the original, so I'm figuring they have the same dizzy in them. Been a long time since I've looked at either of the engines. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif
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[ QUOTE ]


so i've started to get to the meat and potatoes of this restoration and noticed that all gt6's came with delco distributors. all but mine that is.

i've got a lucas 41168 D from the 19th week of 1975. is this a tr6 distributor? i haven't been able to find any real good info and searches come up short.


[/ QUOTE ]
Yours is not the only one. Mine is a Dec. 71 build 1972 GT6 with the same distributor.

I became the 3rd owner in 1978. I suspect that the 41168 D was the BL dealer replacement for Delco's that came back
broken.

It is a pain getting a cap & rotor for this distributor in your GT6. Especially when you TELL them it's a Lucas distributor & they keep looking at & pulling out Delco stuff. Then when you hammer it in, they say "Huh, well you've got the wrong distributor". No brah, the book don't know all.
 
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