healeys
[Top] [All Lists]

Vacume advance checkout on DM6 distributor question

To: healeylist <healeys@autox.team.net>
Subject: Vacume advance checkout on DM6 distributor question
From: Tracy Drummond <bighealey@charter.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 07:24:12 -0700
Oh wise and knowledgeable ones,  may I query you?

I believe my vacuum advance is not working. After pulling off the rotor 
and top plate and inspection of the mechanical advance
weights and springs, (which I cleaned up with a light carb cleaner spray 
and will lube with white lithium grease upon reassembly) I disconnected 
the vacuum line from the advance unit on the distributor, hooked up a 
small hose and sucked like (*&%$#.

It moved but only a few millimeters and then only just before me passing 
out and imploding my eardrums from sucking so hard.
It slowly returned with vacuum still applied.   So I can barely get it 
to move even with all pressure from the plate/points assembly removed.

What I suspect is that this obviously original vacuum advance unit is 
gonzo/caput/suffering from Dutch Elm Disease (DED).

Moss lists a replacement, any comments on the quality of this part or 
perhaps (pigs fly) I have mis-diagnosed.

BTW the symptoms that prompted this is a loss of power at high revs 
after looking over and feeling confident about timing/plugs/fuel mixture.

There is ever so slight play in the distributor shaft which does not 
necessarily warrant rebushing.

I  hear a faint chanting (a hundred bucks, a hundred bucks) when I go 
into any sort of work on Bighly.

Thanks in advance (smirk) for comments and advice,

Tracy

PS : Gary A. you drive like a girlie boy.  See you Saturday on the HMB 
to Santa Cruz run?





<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>