You mean you can adapt a more efficient 1755 pump to a 1600 engine?
Rex Funk
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> From: Jarrid Gross (Yorba Linda, CA) <GROSS(at)UNIT.COM>
> To: alpine newsgroup <alpines(at)autox.team.net>; William Lewis
<wrlewis(at)ucdavis.edu>
> Subject: RE: Tachometer conversion
> Date: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 1:07 PM
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> From: William Lewis
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> >Jarrid
> > That person was me. I bought a driver dog from Moss for the Lucas
> >distributor. The dog is too tall and needs to be ground down to 3/8".
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> Clever!
> Using the distributor drive cog saves one of the two major
> machine opperations.
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> >A friend of mine (Keith, are you reading this) managed to rework the oil
> >pump from an early Series car using parts of a later series car, so that
> >he didn't have to build a spacer. Unfortunately, his method requires
> >removing the engine to get at the oil pump, but if your motor is out,
the
> >conversion can be done.
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> Since the sump can be removed with the engine in the car, the
> oil pump can easily be replaced while in the car as well.
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> The only component that must be removed is the distributor,
> which must be removed so the oil pump shaft can be phased to
> the engine position at #1 TDC.
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> Jarrid