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  1. 6th June 2009, 07:23 AM #1
    PhilipA
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    strange problem with dizzy on RRC.

    I recently had my starter motor cleaned and the motor idled better later.

    I was congratulating myself that the earth was dirty until I had a general inspection of the engine prior to my big trip.

    I found I had disconnected the vacuum line to my maxidrive, giving me a little bit more air at idle. The stepper had still bought down the idle so it was hard to tell except at start up .

    ANYWAY to the point.

    I pulled off the dizzy cap to oil the centrifugal advance and have a general look at the dizzy cap etc.

    There was my vacuum advance just hanging off the two bolts that were 3/4 undone. The vacuum advance is not used with the Unichip, but the timing must have been jumping around several/many degrees as the baseplate would have rotated freely in the slop zone.

    The car has been stalling at hot start for a long time, so maybe it is because it was advanced a lot! What a job to tighten them, as there is NO room particularly with my Thor manifold.

    Regards Philip A
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  2. 6th June 2009, 07:55 AM #2
    Pierre
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    Yep, Lucas distributors - got to love 'em.

    Phillip, thanks for another good tip for the punter whose timing starts to stray! I solve that issue with small dob of threadlocker.

    Another one for a badly tended dissie ignition is this one learnt the hard way

    Finding it hard to move the rotor button? Before you lose your cool and you break something, hold the top part of the distributor shaft DOWN with a screwdriver (stategically placed!) and then you can use some muscle on the button.

    If you don't, the plastic retaining collar breaks into a zillion bits and the top part of the shaft floats around.... This small plastic ring is only available in a full repair parts kit - yep!

    Then you have to dismantle the whole @#$% thing and repair it by drilling and tapping a small machine screw into the top of the shaft.

    Trust Lucas? Sure can.

    Pete
    Last edited by Pierre; 6th June 2009 at 07:58 AM. Reason: Comment on Phillip's discovery.
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  3. 6th June 2009, 03:37 PM #3
    PhilipA
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    Yes, i put some anti seize on my rotor and it came off SOOOO Easily.

    NO way was I going to take out the banana screws to put loctite on them so I smeared them with a big dollop of silastic.
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