15-09-2017, 08:10 AM
(This post was last modified: 15-09-2017, 08:12 AM by Ruairidh Dunford.)
This is my first attempt at faking up the new distributor to look like an original one, jobs done:
I stripped the body of everything and painted it black and ran an oily cloth over it whilst tacky.
I tapped the oiler hole to 1/4 bsw and screwed in a bent tube type oiler - with a tiny bit of loctite.
I drilled and tapped two holes to BA5 and attached the timing plate (it's a little high in this first one).
I removed the pins and cap clips, opened out the hole very lightly and refitted some of the original type split pins and clips.
I used heat shrink on the wires to hold them together.
From this:
To this:
If anyone has any clever ideas about the wire connections and how to make them more period at the cap end I would be very interested to read your thoughts.
I stripped the body of everything and painted it black and ran an oily cloth over it whilst tacky.
I tapped the oiler hole to 1/4 bsw and screwed in a bent tube type oiler - with a tiny bit of loctite.
I drilled and tapped two holes to BA5 and attached the timing plate (it's a little high in this first one).
I removed the pins and cap clips, opened out the hole very lightly and refitted some of the original type split pins and clips.
I used heat shrink on the wires to hold them together.
From this:
To this:
If anyone has any clever ideas about the wire connections and how to make them more period at the cap end I would be very interested to read your thoughts.