26-04-2025, 02:44 PM
On the DK4 distributer I fit an earth wire to one of the screws holding fixed points contacts and take it out of the distributer through a small slot filed in the base and earth it on the engine. I use one of the dynamo throigh bolts. This bypasses the bad earths that these distributers have. They depend on brass strips embedded in the Bakerlite and then connecting to the ditributer body by one of the screws holding base plate down. On manual advance distributers the body has no firm connection to the engine to allow it to rotate either.
Jim