Hey Tracy,
Sounds like yo could be a lotta fun (queering) in the back seat of a Healey.
Kirk ;-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tracy Drummond" <bighealey@charter.net>
To: "healeylist" <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 7:24 AM
Subject: Vacume advance checkout on DM6 distributor question
> Oh wise and knowledgeable ones, may I query you?
>
> I believe my vacuum advance is not working. After pulling off the rotor
> and top plate and inspection of the mechanical advance
> weights and springs, (which I cleaned up with a light carb cleaner spray
> and will lube with white lithium grease upon reassembly) I disconnected
> the vacuum line from the advance unit on the distributor, hooked up a
> small hose and sucked like (*&%$#.
>
> It moved but only a few millimeters and then only just before me passing
> out and imploding my eardrums from sucking so hard.
> It slowly returned with vacuum still applied. So I can barely get it
> to move even with all pressure from the plate/points assembly removed.
>
> What I suspect is that this obviously original vacuum advance unit is
> gonzo/caput/suffering from Dutch Elm Disease (DED).
>
> Moss lists a replacement, any comments on the quality of this part or
> perhaps (pigs fly) I have mis-diagnosed.
>
> BTW the symptoms that prompted this is a loss of power at high revs
> after looking over and feeling confident about timing/plugs/fuel mixture.
>
> There is ever so slight play in the distributor shaft which does not
> necessarily warrant rebushing.
>
> I hear a faint chanting (a hundred bucks, a hundred bucks) when I go
> into any sort of work on Bighly.
>
> Thanks in advance (smirk) for comments and advice,
>
> Tracy
>
> PS : Gary A. you drive like a girlie boy. See you Saturday on the HMB
> to Santa Cruz run?
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