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Pacman

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• Jan 4, 2005

• #1

Are there different types of distributors for 2.25 petrols? I removed the
distributor from my broken engine and fitted onto my new one. However in
the new engine was a circular cylinder type thing with gear teeth on the
bottom which sat in the engine. My dizzy wouldn't fit, so I removed it and
put in the part that came from the old engine, which has no teeth on it but
slotted into the notches. Everything marries up and appears OK but I'm a
little curious asto what the difference is and to find out if I've made a
bit of a cock up!

Thanks,
Paul

 

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Richard

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• Jan 4, 2005

• #2

When we changed ours there were two makes. Lucas and Duecillier (spelt
something like that!) ours was a 1979 and it had the latter.
Richard



"Pacman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Are there different types of distributors for 2.25 petrols? I removed the
> distributor from my broken engine and fitted onto my new one. However in
> the new engine was a circular cylinder type thing with gear teeth on the
> bottom which sat in the engine. My dizzy wouldn't fit, so I removed it and
> put in the part that came from the old engine, which has no teeth on it
> but
> slotted into the notches. Everything marries up and appears OK but I'm a
> little curious asto what the difference is and to find out if I've made a
> bit of a cock up!
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
>

 

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Adrian Ford

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• Jan 4, 2005

• #3

From 1980 the duciellier distributor superseded the lucas 45d4 type witch is
fully interchangeable also vehicles from 1980 have a single timing pointer
fixed to the front timing cover and a scale of five notches on the
crankshaft pulley.

Above copied from haynes manual..Hope this helps...
Adrian Ford
"Richard" <richardsemail [email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> When we changed ours there were two makes. Lucas and Duecillier (spelt
> something like that!) ours was a 1979 and it had the latter.
> Richard
>
>
>
> "Pacman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Are there different types of distributors for 2.25 petrols? I removed
the
> > distributor from my broken engine and fitted onto my new one. However
in
> > the new engine was a circular cylinder type thing with gear teeth on the
> > bottom which sat in the engine. My dizzy wouldn't fit, so I removed it
and
> > put in the part that came from the old engine, which has no teeth on it
> > but
> > slotted into the notches. Everything marries up and appears OK but I'm
a
> > little curious asto what the difference is and to find out if I've made
a
> > bit of a cock up!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Paul
> >
> >
>
>

 

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JD

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• Jan 5, 2005

• #4

Pacman wrote:

> Are there different types of distributors for 2.25 petrols? I removed the
> distributor from my broken engine and fitted onto my new one. However in
> the new engine was a circular cylinder type thing with gear teeth on the
> bottom which sat in the engine. My dizzy wouldn't fit, so I removed it and
> put in the part that came from the old engine, which has no teeth on it
> but
> slotted into the notches. Everything marries up and appears OK but I'm a
> little curious asto what the difference is and to find out if I've made a
> bit of a cock up!
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
There are at least two types of Lucas distributor plus Ducellier. All are
interchangeable.
JD

 

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beamendsltd

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• Jan 5, 2005

• #5

In message <[email protected]>
"Pacman" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Are there different types of distributors for 2.25 petrols? I removed the
> distributor from my broken engine and fitted onto my new one. However in
> the new engine was a circular cylinder type thing with gear teeth on the
> bottom which sat in the engine. My dizzy wouldn't fit, so I removed it and
> put in the part that came from the old engine, which has no teeth on it but
> slotted into the notches. Everything marries up and appears OK but I'm a
> little curious asto what the difference is and to find out if I've made a
> bit of a cock up!
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
>

There are two basic types - Lucas and Ducellier. The Lucas
unit has had two flavours over the years, neither of which
is now available (parts are though). New units are Ducellier,
however, all three types are a striaight swap.
Beware of those who say Mini distrubiutors can be fitted,
they are the same but have a different drive dog.

Richard
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Austin Shackles

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• Jan 5, 2005

• #6

On or around Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:02:42 +0000 (UTC), beamendsltd
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>In message <[email protected]>
> "Pacman" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Are there different types of distributors for 2.25 petrols? I removed the
>> distributor from my broken engine and fitted onto my new one. However in
>> the new engine was a circular cylinder type thing with gear teeth on the
>> bottom which sat in the engine. My dizzy wouldn't fit, so I removed it and
>> put in the part that came from the old engine, which has no teeth on it but
>> slotted into the notches. Everything marries up and appears OK but I'm a
>> little curious asto what the difference is and to find out if I've made a
>> bit of a cock up!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Paul
>>
>>
>
>There are two basic types - Lucas and Ducellier. The Lucas
>unit has had two flavours over the years, neither of which
>is now available (parts are though). New units are Ducellier,
>however, all three types are a striaight swap.
>Beware of those who say Mini distrubiutors can be fitted,
>they are the same but have a different drive dog.

you should be able to swap the drive dog over though...

I successfully fitted a 45D4 electronic distributor from a 2-litre O series
engine to the LR 2.5 4-cyl.

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