Anybody know of a supplier of bob-weight springs for Lucas dizzies? Surprisingly Lucas used to supply ... but now you mention ignition and LSUK are struck dumb ... Mine are decidedly sloppy as are most things after 30 years!
Lucas dizzy parts
Jul 21, 2005
11 Replies
oh er !
so AJG was, like...
30? Mate, you have no idea. :-)
Have you tried
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Steve.
Hich distributor? Do you have a part number - we can get most things.
Richard
The stronger spring is meant to be loose on the posts, the weaker spring comes in first as the revs increase, then the stronger spring operates after some advance has happened. Decidedly sloppy might be OK
steve the grease
In message , beamendsltd writes
It's a 35D8, date 49 74 ... so it is 31 years old! It's ref number is 41382 E
The exact spring match will be a bit vague as it's currently on a 3.5 high compression vitesse block with larger valve heads and an old timing cover! However up until a few weeks ago it was running pretty well but now I'm sure it isn't getting enough advance and I think at least the heavy spring has given up as one turn is definitely mis-shapen, the lighter one looks ok but is still quite sloppy so there will be immediate advance at idle which I don't want.
dizzies?
ignition and
operates after
Excellent discussion on the distributor internals here:
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Turns out my Austin Healey 3000 dizzy is the same as the 6 pot 6 cylinder Series iiA apart from the cam and springs but haveing had a
6 pot years back I can assure you there's a big difference in acceleration
AWEM
A replacement for the incorrect/broken link to "Lucas Distributor Data":
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Odd - link works for me and is actually a discussion on the internals, but does also link to that page as well. Try this:
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AWEM
The troublesome one was the link within the link - down at the bottom of the page.
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