15-08-2019, 11:22 AM
I believe that the original fitting to the Ruby series cars was a Lucas DK4 distributor which gives 8 degrees advance. Earlier cars has a Lucas DJ distributor which has no centrifugal advance and relied on manual adjustment via the column lever. A manually adjusted dizzy should be set at full retard for starting and then advanced when on the move. Advance is clockwise relative to the distributor body and its base. The column levers may have been reversed!