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[Barnes]

hi all

quick update, i have changed the ht leads for copper core and the fault persisted so i changed the dizy cap and it is better all though not completly cured. i shall wait until i can ride it to verify the fault, if it still persists i shall order up a new rotor arm.

thanks
ed

[Martin]

Hi Barnes, Have empathy with your
vertical distributor issue. Have
a '50 500 twin with a later 9/56
marked dist.whose rotor cam had
no cor-relation with the correct
timing. Norm helped me modify that
rotor cam which is another story,
but it still needs sorting. Anyway
at some stage did a frenzy review
of all the Lucas vertical dists.
and was struck by the numerous
sublties in degree that different
advance mechanisms gave,and rotor
tip lengths, and the rotor cams
too on Enfield twins between '49
and '58. So am suggesting perhaps
the swapping of distributors of
different year motors may be dis-
ruptive somehow. The distributor
I have came from a '57 Indian
Tomahawk whose Lucas part numbers
aren't even listed. Sorry have no
silver bullet solution, Gordon