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[Healeys] #40320 Distributor ?

Subject: [Healeys] #40320 Distributor ?
From: austin.healey at gmail.com (Chris Dimmock)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 01:20:24 +1000
References: <B2E6217D-D15F-476B-A4E5-5D58CE74FB3D@gmail.com> <63946660-1229-4DAD-9EC3-93A49C1A97B7@gmail.com> <205696521-1336346814-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1340927716-@b27.c3.bise3.blackberry> <5EA2EF7A-DCD0-416A-A137-38D1F1E2C600@gmail.com> <CAFBXTkLc1BGC9QyW+T9L_Sz+v84TxZ9drXch4myrFxv3Jujpwg@mail.gmail.com>
http://www.a90atlantic.com/index.php/technical-info-s
Click on distributor.
On A90 Atlantic the DM2 40320 was fitted from May 1951. Clamp had 1 bolt not
2.
Yes, earlier production of A90 Atlantic was different.
Best
Chris
Sent from my iPhone

On 07/05/2012, at 5:57 PM, Alan Seigrist <healey.nut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmm weird.  My Saloon was made on or around August '51 and it had the old
DVX4 dizzy on it....  but who knows.
>
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Chris Dimmock <austin.healey at gmail.com>
wrote:
> http://www.a90atlantic.com/index.php/technical-info-s
> Click on distributor.
> On A90 Atlantic the DM2 40320 was fitted from May 1951. Clamp had 1 bolt not
2.
> Yes, earlier production of A90 Atlantic was different.
> Best
> Chris
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 07/05/2012, at 9:26 AM, healey.nut at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Atlantics used a different dizzy altogether.  Not the best unit - the main
housing was split between the lower shaft housing and the upper contact
housing.  The interference fit between the two was prone to wear, causing
housing wobble similar to shaft wobble.  A finicky and unreliable unit on many
levels....
> > Sent by BlackBerryB. from PCCW mobile
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Dimmock <austin.healey at gmail.com>
> > Sender: healeys-bounces at autox.team.netDate: Mon, 7 May 2012 08:21:02
> > To: Randy Hicks<Healey100M at gmail.com>
> > Cc: Healey List<healeys at autox.team.net>
> > Subject: Re: [Healeys] #40320 Distributor ?
> >
> > 100's prior to chassis 230361, and A90 atlantics.
> > Best
> > Chris

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