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stevebn2bj7

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This past weekend my distributor housing broke where the hold down clamp rides. THe entire housing is broke around there. Likely to have been this way for a while and I never cought it.

Does anyone have a Lucas 25D distributor they would care to sell or have a lead as to where I can get one. Feel free to PM.

Thanks,
Steve
 
Call Jeff at Advance Distributors 612-804-5543

www.advanceddistributors.com

He's got a pile of them and your little car will purr like it should with a re-curved, re-built dizzy

No association, just a satisfied customer.
 
Hi Steve, take the housing to a machine shop amd have a new solid ring made and pressed on.---Keoke
 
Dave Richards said:
Keoke said:
Hi Steve, take the housing to a machine shop amd have a new solid ring made and pressed on.---Keoke
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Hey KEOKE!!!
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Just got mine back from Jeff at Advanced, great job, looks like new and works like a charm. Had the electonic ignition put in as well....

Second the opinion.

Michael.
 
These clamp rings which IMOP are of a poor design break all the time we do not advise a rebuild of a perfectly good dizzy when an acceptable local repair is available. Further. even if you replace these housings with a new one or a good used one that mechanical weakness in the clamp ring is not addressed.---Keoke
 
Keoke,
Thanks for the info. If a new piece is made and pressed on, is it oversize of the original casing and then also opening up the clamp? Or is the old broken area cut off and a new piece pressed into some sort of a recess cut into the housing?

Steve
 
stevebn2bj7 said:
Keoke,
Thanks for the info. If a new piece is made and pressed on, is it oversize of the original casing

No the machinest can extablish the correct OD by looking and measuring the remaining fragments.



The old broken fragmented area is cut off flush with the bottom and the new ring is pressed on. There are no high rotational loads here so just a good tight interference fit will do. ---Keoke

Steve
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Here's my take................

Yes, a machine shop could fix the single item thats broke. I consulted with Jeff at Advance Distributors about my stock dizzy that I was using in my race car. We discussed options that would give me the performance I needed but would still be compliant for my car vintage regulations.

Jeff was able retro -fit the better engineered Lucas Dizzy from an XK 150
(which looks exactly like my stock unit from the exterior) but has superior internals.

He recurved it to my spec.s and it has never let me down............ under race conditions.

My point, we're dealing with 40+ year old Lucas equipment, I think it my be a good idea to have a fresh pair of eyes take a holistic look at the problem.

You may find a lot more performance then expected after a complete rebuild.

Just a satisfied customer.

Dougie
 
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That Jag Dizzy is super. However. I have never been able to reconcile the fact that the shaft bearings in the Jag units rarely show any wear,---Keoke
 
The new Pertronix dizzys are quite good. I have one on my Jag Mk IX and A90. Haven't put it on my BJ8 simply because that dizzy had only 20K miles on it and has a Pertronix unit inside, and my 100 still has the old dizzy but wih pertronix inside on it.

The new Pertronix dizzys can be recurved to spec, FYI.
 
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OP! OK! you guys can quit twisting my arm now I got the message,---Keoke-- :laugh:
 
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