Hi guys, Today, I was going to drive the car to a Gulf Coast Healey Club meeting for the first time. I live about as far out as you can live in the suburbs of Houston so I the trip was 25 miles each
I don't know the answer to current rotors, but having caused a rotor to fail on an almost new BJ8 back in '65 by just removing and replacing it (limped home on a spare rotor from a buddy's Nash Metro
I can't believe how many people have had this problem! Why are we putting up with this??? This isn't normal Lucas bad electrics, this is an absolutely defective part sitting on the shelves! Patton Di
We are putting up with this because it is possibly not a fault of a single manufacturer. Last year on the way to Conclave I went thru 3 rotors, that were purchased from VB as the "good" ones. They w
Here is one thing to look for: excessive side play in the distributor shaft and any evidence of contact between the rotor and cap terminals (brass powder). The rotor terminal and the distributor cap
I had a batch of three go in a few hundred miles - all from different shops, but probably out of the same overseas factory. Then fitted a Lucas NOS part, and have been happy ever since (though admitt
I just realized that I didn't edit the last reply so if this comes through twice, my apologies . Also another thought that crossed my mind afterwards is that the original parts were made of bakelite,
A followup to Bob Browns theory of maybe another cause for rotor failure. My BJ8 Lucas 25d distributor always (25 years) had a piece missing around the base of the distributor where the hold down cla