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The definitely were not drilled. They are on the side of the case, and are ragged. It's ugly. In support of JB Weld, however, it seems to have held for however long it's been there. I did wonder how such holes could have been made, and can't come up with much other than a rod could have exited an adjacent cylinder in a prior engine and impacted the distributor.
 
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/savewave.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/savewave.gif Cutlass, at under 800 RPM the spring is at rest=Static--------------------- Now wait! before you go to all this work!!.If the bottom holes are plugged with JB Weld just punch it out. If the mounting ring is crushed take a solid SS water hose clamp and use to form a mold around the remaing clamp area,put a coat of light grease inside the ring and then fill the space between the housing and the hose clamp with JB weld to a level matching the original ring and let it cure. Remove the hose clanp and trim the reinforced retaining ring back to its original height.--Fwiw---Keoke


OK OK Cutlass,Thats a bummer. I give;but I did say "IF" ---Keoke-- /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
He said the holes were in the side, not the bottom.

It's quite likely that a previous owner had a bob weight come loose due to a broken spring. The 23D4 dizzy on my Mini had similar damage when I bought it as a project car. The shell had a chunk missing and it was filled with RTV.
 
Hello Keoke & Cutlass

I differ on this:

"Your parts book does not have that part cuz that part does not exist."---Keoke

Hmmmmm.....My turn to switch to a sarsky mood: the part does indeed exist-check your latest Moss AH catalogs under "Internal engine 100-6, 3000", illustrations no 130 & 131 (circlip): "Coupling, distributor to gear" (BJ8). In the official AH BJ8 Parts Book, this "non-existant" part is also found in the "internal engine" section (MA) and NOT in the "ignition" section (MB)......'64BJ8
 
That part is not what we are talkig about that part is not part of the Dizzy but is used on the cam driven shoe "Internal to the Engine" which inturn drives the dizzy when installed---Keoke
 
Hi Doug, Yeah the PO must have buggered that Dizzy up pretty bad---Keoke- /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yesnod.gif
 
Consider this a temporary thread hi-jack.

Some of you have now visited Marcel Chichak's web site using the link I posted earlier. Marcel has probably studied the Lucas dizzy's more than anyone else in North America. Marcel is the person who figured out that the distributors from a number of the 1.6 liter Japanese engines would fit BMC/BL's 4-cylinder engines. Marcel's work focused on the 4-cylinder dizzy's. I've often wondered if the Japanese carried over the Hitachi dizzy design to their early 6-cylinder engines as used on the early Z-cars. If they did, it would be possible to transplant a Z-car dizzy into my Triumph. If so... it should be equally possible to make this swap on a 6-cylinder Healey. I know almost anything can be done with enough machining or modification, I've just wondered if the 6-cylinder swap could be made as easily as the 4-cylinder one.

End hi-jack.
 
Hi Doug:

Now that is an interesting point but I have never checked that possibility out. Off the top of my head the six cylinder 240 Z Dizzy just may fit the bill. That engine drops into a healey with virtualy no mods.I can't get to the junk yard for a while but I certainly will have a look at one.On the other hand,Lambert may already know the answer since he pioneered the Z-to-Healey engine swap.---Keoke
 
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