Oil Overfill

Rogan said:

Ah, well it does turn as you say, but it has a tendency to stick. There's quite a lot of grit floating about in there, I've oiled it with sewing machine oil but it hasn't freed it up much.

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In the bottom of the body of the distributor you should find one or more small drain holes.

They'll be right at the bottom to let excess oil and condensation OUT - and which will let stuff IN too.

The car is driving along .... distributor bob-weight plate spinning nicely at half engine speed, acting like a centrifugal air pump flinging the air inside outwards and upwards due to the bowl shape of the body ... and a steady little draight of air LEAVES the dizzy through the gap between the body and the dizzy cap. This means that all the time the engine is running, the dizzy is sucking a little air in the drain holes and sending it up the dizzy body, and out the cap gap. This is how the insides of a dizzy can get so filthy. And the air is not filtered in any way ... all that dust, grit, crap and grot that passes through the engine bay ... some of it is going in those holes ... just a tiny bit mind ... but perhaps for 20, 30, 40 or 50 years!

I would say a once-a-year clean out would be a good plan.

CharlesY

Cheers, I didn't get deep enough into the dizzy to find any drain holes. I left the plate the weights rest on in there and just had a fiddle with the obvious moving parts.

It wasn't too complicated, just a pair of asymmetrical weights on the cam and a pair of small springs.

Pulled the cam, springs and weights. Drowned the lower part of the casing in WD40, wiped all the crud and WD out and the bottom started spinning smoothly, did the same to the cam, oiled it all up with engine oil and now it's silky smooth.

The springs were rusty, and the condensor's dated 12/90, so if I just replace those it should be as good as new.

Then I can go back to failing to tune it.

Sounds to me that you are well on the way to being good at this!

CharlesY

Thanks, not without everyone's help!

david451 said:

when he had to start the foker in the morning with the starter handle,

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A starting handle, Sir.Is a very useful tool to have on a vehicle, although I suspect that a you would struggle to hand start a land rover 2.25 diesel engine, but still equipped with one.

david451 said:

my mates dad had a three wheeler and he had to kick start it from under the bonnet, what a spectical it was.

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That I believe, was a "Bond Minicar"

The Bond Minicar Page

CharlesY said:

Sounds to me that you are well on the way to being good at this!

CharlesY

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Sounds like you have a bit of history behind you charlie, and I bet theres a lot of "I remember whens" why dont you add them into the conversations!!

zzr1200 said:

A starting handle, Sir.Is a very useful tool to have on a vehicle, although I suspect that a you would struggle to hand start a land rover 2.25 diesel engine, but still equipped with one.





That I believe, was a "Bond Minicar"

The Bond Minicar Page

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You are bang on, cant remember which one it was tho, a later one I think, do you remember the matchless motorcycle aswel 400 single I think it was, I built one of these from a box for a guy back then, and a tiger cub project that a guy got lost in, and a bsa 650 chopper I built for myself with girder forks. Fook if only I could go back.

david451 said:

You are bang on, cant remember which one it was tho, a later one I think, do you remember the matchless motorcycle aswel 400 single I think it was, I built one of these from a box for a guy back then, and a tiger cub project that a guy got lost in, and a bsa 650 chopper I built for myself with girder forks. Fook if only I could go back.

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My father had one of these when I was about 6 years old the "Delux Version" which was equipped with an electric starter.....

And if you wanted true luxury you could have the option of a reverse gear......which was a control box that allowed you to stop the engine and then start it again with the engine running backwards (50 mph backwards at the flick of a switch, Sir????).

One of my mates bought a BSA DBD34 GS in boxes for 160.00 quid then rebuilt it, every bolt 'n' nut including wheel spindles were made out of SS, plus Eddie Dowel Racing Tank and Superlegger Forks with 4 or 8 Leading Shoe Front Brakes.

And I was given a "Vincent 1000cc series 'C', oh those were the days.....

zzr1200 said:

My father had one of these when I was about 6 years old the "Delux Version" which was equipped with an electric starter.....

And if you wanted true luxury you could have the option of a reverse gear......which was a control box that allowed you to stop the engine and then start it again with the engine running backwards (50 mph backwards at the flick of a switch, Sir????).

One of my mates bought a BSA DBD34 GS in boxes for 160.00 quid then rebuilt it, every bolt 'n' nut including wheel spindles were made out of SS, plus Eddie Dowel Racing Tank and Superlegger Forks with 4 or 8 Leading Shoe Front Brakes.

And I was given a "Vincent 1000cc series 'C', oh those were the days.....

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Gee I remember that now, no reverse and him having to get out and push it. There was a vincent I remember a black shaddow, and my dad had an arial square 4, meant for a side car combination but he drove it solo. My mates at that time used to build a bike called a triton I think it was called, a bit of triumph and a bit of the norton.

In my first garage I worked my boss had a norton dominator, used to let us give it a bash every so often to keep it good, and in a shed he had a stash of old bikes that he intended to do up, he said that he was going to get me to do them but ill health changed that for him. One of them was like the bmw but I cant remember the name now, in lime green and silver, might even had been shaft drive aswel.

I had a bantam for a wee while ding ding ding. hehe.

I still hand crank my rover for kicks sometimes. Usually when I'm in crowded parking lots where people are curious about the car.