No one plug, a lot lighter in colour than other five, on Vitesse

[Pete Lewis]

if you refit the eleccy unit you must reset the static timing 

as a tes t turn the engine to fully open the points with the rotor pointing to the odd colour cylinder and check the points gap 

in fact you could go mad and check the points gap for each lobe of the dizzy cam 

ie remove cap put in 4th and push car to turn the dizzy one full turn measure/check each opening 

Pete 

[daverclasper]

Thanks Pete. I did wonder about doing that, though thought that maybe when the dizzy shaft is turning when running, the gaps could be different from when static

[johny]

Should be able to feel amount of play in the shaft Dave by side to side push-pull....

[Pete Lewis]

56 minutes ago, daverclasper said:

running, the gaps could be different from when static

surprisingly the mechanical cam and points follower maintains  a pretty consistent operation from idle to over 6k   

but any side play becausr the body bush and spindle has worn will get upset when rotating 

always with lucas or delco a squiert of oil down into the base oils thetop bush , its not egine lubricated 

delco are renowned for dry running wears the spindle  lucas are lesser problems but OIL  is needed 

some base plates even have OIL  stamped near a suitble squirt hole 

Pete