Alan and Dave, Thanks for the help, it is actually runing pretty well after I
bent the spring ends in closer--but I don'tknow if that will hold long term or
not, interesting on the pics, the little moving piece the spring attaches to
(as opposed to the stationary one) on mine has two holes as opposed to the
slot shown in the pics provided, otherwise it looks the same.
I will check out advanced speedometers.
Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: Alan Seigrist
To: Greg Lemon
Cc: Healeys@Autox. Team. Net
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 12:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Advance Mech. Question BN1
Greg -
I was just having a look at Jeff's website and noticed he has a picture of
the DM2 advance mechanism on there:
http://www.advanceddistributors.com/2007new/gallerythingie/gallery.php?id=1
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Cheers!
Alan
On 8/24/07, Alan Seigrist <healey.nut@gmail.com> wrote:
Send it to jeff at advanced distributors. He is very fair with his
pricing and knows all the lucas dizzys like the back of his hand.
http://www.advanceddistributors.com/
Best Regards,
Alan
On 8/24/07, Greg Lemon <glemon@neb.rr.com> wrote:
Getting away from the riveting discussion of club politics and back to
arcane technical discussion of our cars, I have discovered my
distributor
advance springs were not in tension and so was getting limited advance
function, or more procisely a significant amount of mechanical advance
at
idle, and not enough adjustment or range from there.
Anyhow, in the advance mechanism are little brass fulcrums, for want of
a
better term, that the springs attach to. They have two attachment
points
one obviously giving more tension and one less, does anyone know which
one
is the apporpriate one to use? I was on the closer one, so my stretched
springs could concievably be fixed by going to the longer attachment
point??
I also tried drilling an intermediate hole to attach the springs, but
the
little fulcrum thingies seem to be made of some substance impervious
commercially available drill bits.
Does anybody sell new springs?? haven't found any at the usual suspects.
As
I recall it is the early DM2 "dizzy"
Thanks,
Greg Lemon
54 BN1
P.S. I am quite tapped out after the engine rebuild and although there
is
still money (somewhere) spending it on the car may result in my being
single
and paying alimony. So please the suggestions of send it to a competent
shop to have it rebuilt or buy a new one, while quite possibly the
right
course of action, are just not in the cards at the moment.
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