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Re: Re: Vacume advance checkout on DM6 distributor question

To: "62bt7" <62bt7@prodigy.net>, "healeylist" <healeys@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Re: Vacume advance checkout on DM6 distributor question
From: Tracy Drummond <bighealey@charter.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:33:25 +0000
ROFL

Kirk  thats query not queery  (one e) OK so I live near San Francisco  that 
doesnt mean I'll let you hold it against me.

heee haa

> 
> From: "62bt7" <62bt7@prodigy.net>
> Date: 2004/07/15 Thu PM 04:01:52 GMT
> To: "Tracy Drummond" <bighealey@charter.net>, 
>         "healeylist" <healeys@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: Vacume advance checkout on DM6 distributor question
> 
> 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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