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petesbluemg

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I purchased a Lucas electroic distributor....used
the numbers on it are 41695A 45DE4
just need to know the two wire hook up......
small black and orange wires........
new menber.......have a 75 MGB
I have never started the car redid the engine
and put it in last week........
thanks for any help you can give me........
 
Pete, first off good luck with your car, its a great little car, the dizzy you bought however is the worst piece of junk Lucas ever came up with, i know ive fixed lots of them. Dont bother with the electronic part of the dizzy,clip the wires and buy a Pertronics unit to go in it, or a Crane unit.
 
Hate to say it, but I agree with "rampart"...the OPUS was & is junk...probability is that the unit doesn't work anyway - so, go with something else inside it...or see if you can return it....I toss all the OPUS' is the round file when I pull them off an engine.
 
I'll let the Petronix guys speak to that - I prefer Crane....there's a great thread going on right now that discusses the exact question you asked....its on pros & cons of Petronix - about 15 pages...it should provide yopu all the info you need.

https://www.britishcarforum.com/ubbthread...p;page=0#233463
 
The 45DE4 was notriously unreliable, and was dead when I got my car. That's why I went with Pertronix (correct spelling). Easy to install, and works great. I re-used the old wiring harness since it had the 12 volts the Pertronix needed, and that way if I came across a working spare distributor I could still plug it into the original harness.
 
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