What Annoyed me Today.......

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Re: What Annoyed me Today.......

Post by anglefire » Tue Oct 31, 2017 7:45 pm

Why are you messing with it Ben and not chucked it back at the office/supplier to sort?

What has annoyed me? Well, I bought a new dizzy last year as I thought the one I had was playing up - but its not been 100% right since and has a bit of pinking when hot and is a little rough at idle - though not bad if you know what I mean for a 40 year old car.

So, having done some research it looks like the cheap (Like £30 ish) dizzy's don't perform anything like the original British made Lucas ones and often the vacuum advance barely works or at least not consistently.

That and I'm going to get a replacement engine (I've got one lined up which is complete with a 4-2-1 stainless header and twin exhaust) and after some checks and fit a new oil pump probably as that hasn't been changed and water pump for the same reason, drop that in and I would rather have a decent dizzy to start - so I've ordered a refurbished one from the Distributor Doctor today - and cos I threw the old dizzy away just the core is £75 then on top of that is the cost to make sure it is bob on to the original specs. Oh well it's only money.


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Re: What Annoyed me Today.......

Post by benp » Wed Nov 01, 2017 6:49 pm

sadly I have been a bit bent over by others on this tool, it took 6 months to arrive and I get to be the one who attends all the meetings where people discuss non delivery of contract and other wonderful phrases... plus I do like making stuff work which I did, on looking at it the date and time stamp was way off so it was convinced I couldn't have asked it to work as the date hadn't happened :pcwhack: simples when you find it but given the power circuit was dodgy I was thinking bigger problems with the rest of it


ps the sentence "dizzy's don't perform anything like the original British made Lucas ones" :blowup: amused me ;)


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Re: What Annoyed me Today.......

Post by DSL » Wed Nov 01, 2017 8:46 pm

Took me ages to work out what a dizzy was. :whistle: :whistle:


If only I could think of something useful to type here!! :(

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Re: What Annoyed me Today.......

Post by anglefire » Thu Nov 02, 2017 7:34 am

Yeah Lucas and good don’t normally appear in the same sentence, but having talked to the chap who rebuilds them for a living (yeah possible conflict of interest) the cheap Chinese ones are just rubbish.


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