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Re: Distributor problems

To: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@lucent.com>,
Subject: Re: Distributor problems
From: "Geoff Branch" <branch@valinet.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 15:45:55 -0400
I had this same problem when I put in a Mallory dist. on my '74 Midget.  I
took the clamping ring off the car and found that over the years it had
become out of round.  I replaced the bolt and nut that do the clamping ,
bent the ring back into shape, and filed it to round again.  Works great.

GJB
-----Original Message-----
From: William M. Gilroy <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
To: midgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>; mgs <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, October 08, 1998 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: Distributor problems


>This is a follow up to my distributor problems that I was having several
>weeks ago.
>
>One of the listers was nice enough to swap my wobbling dizzy with one
>that worked fine.  When he was doing the swap, he found that my old
>dizzy had advance weights that were for 23 degrees.  The most he
>every saw in a sprite was about 18 degrees.  I was just curious, does
>anyone know if 23 degrees of advance was standard on any MGBs or
>spridgets?   The dizzy was from 1974 according to the date stamped
>on the body.
>
>I ran into one problem when installing the new dizzy. It  was when I
removed
>the dizzy I unbolted the whole dizzy housing(?) from the block.  When I got
>home I figured that the metal housing needed to be cleaned so I removed it
>from the dizzy.  When I re-assembled the unit, I assembled the base and
>clamp without the dizzy in place.  This caused the dizzy to sit high and
>not fully engage the driving dog.  So after a few mins. of running without
>the dizzy fully tightened it worked its way up and stopped spinning.  What
>I had to do was assemble the whole unit together off the car and then I
>could get the dizzy to sit squarely on the housing and clamp.  I hope this
>is clear.
>
>The car runs better now.  I need to fine tune the timing and carbs and
>give it a good road test.
>
>Bill
>
>--
>William M. Gilroy
>77 Midget
>E-mail:    wmgilroy@lucent.com
>Telephone: 732-957-4775
>Fax:       732-957-4775
>


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