Distributor Clean Up

 

 This thing is a mess, the vacuum advance adjuster won't turn and the assembly is corroded.  

 

Inside it's not so bad, just some varnishing of old oil.  

 

 

Haynes says this number was originally on a high compression engine, if you can call 8.8:1 high compression. 

 

 

The wire wheel cleaned up the vacuum advance nicely, now to apply some clear coat to keep it looking this way.  Also I was able to straighten the threaded part of the vacuum advance.

 

Upon reassembly I found the contact breaker baseplate had some wear on the sides of the slot for the top plate to rotate in. A smidge of filing and a few second with the wire wheel, and everything rotates smoothly again. Time to put it together, for real this time. 

 

 

All done. And look, you can see that it is a Lucas part again. Is that a good thing? 

 

     That's all for the distributor. This should make everything run better, and also make the ignition easier to fine tune with the thumb wheel.