Hello: I replaced my wobbly distributor with the Mallory dual point unit
and it is great, great, great. Easy job, but you do need a drill press to
attach the drive dog (get a new one). This is really good 200 bucks to
spend on your engine.
Branch
'74 Midget "Yellow Peril"
-----Original Message-----
From: Skye Poier <skye@ffwd.bc.ca>
To: William M. Gilroy <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
Cc: MG Nuts <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, September 20, 1998 2:07 AM
Subject: Re: Distributor problems
>Word on the street is that William M. Gilroy said:
>> several problems. This dizzy has a vacuum advance unit on the right
>> side. At the back of the vacuum advance is a thumb screw with an
>> AR cast into the metal of the VA (vacuum advance) unit. As I under
>> stand this 77 they had a vacuum retard unit not advance.
>
>The advance-retard adjuster is for timing, not for changing the vacuum
>advance. If your distributor is the same as the model I have described
here
>(it may well not be) then 11 clicks of the adjuster = 1 degree of timing
>change.
>
>> This dizzy
>> also has a wobble. If you grasp the dizzy itself the top half can be
>> moved and wobbled. The dizzy is securely fastened to the block and
>> cannot be rotated. I assume this wobble is not a good thing.
>
>You would assume correctly... I would think your timing is somewhat
"erratic"
>
>Skye
>
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