I had this same problem when I put in a Mallory dist. on my '74 Midget. I
took the clamping ring off the car and found that over the years it had
become out of round. I replaced the bolt and nut that do the clamping ,
bent the ring back into shape, and filed it to round again. Works great.
GJB
-----Original Message-----
From: William M. Gilroy <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
To: midgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>; mgs <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, October 08, 1998 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: Distributor problems
>This is a follow up to my distributor problems that I was having several
>weeks ago.
>
>One of the listers was nice enough to swap my wobbling dizzy with one
>that worked fine. When he was doing the swap, he found that my old
>dizzy had advance weights that were for 23 degrees. The most he
>every saw in a sprite was about 18 degrees. I was just curious, does
>anyone know if 23 degrees of advance was standard on any MGBs or
>spridgets? The dizzy was from 1974 according to the date stamped
>on the body.
>
>I ran into one problem when installing the new dizzy. It was when I
removed
>the dizzy I unbolted the whole dizzy housing(?) from the block. When I got
>home I figured that the metal housing needed to be cleaned so I removed it
>from the dizzy. When I re-assembled the unit, I assembled the base and
>clamp without the dizzy in place. This caused the dizzy to sit high and
>not fully engage the driving dog. So after a few mins. of running without
>the dizzy fully tightened it worked its way up and stopped spinning. What
>I had to do was assemble the whole unit together off the car and then I
>could get the dizzy to sit squarely on the housing and clamp. I hope this
>is clear.
>
>The car runs better now. I need to fine tune the timing and carbs and
>give it a good road test.
>
>Bill
>
>--
>William M. Gilroy
>77 Midget
>E-mail: wmgilroy@lucent.com
>Telephone: 732-957-4775
>Fax: 732-957-4775
>
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