Darren Groves Posted September 29, 2016 Report Share Posted September 29, 2016 Car is a Vitesse 2L MK1 with a Lucas Distributor and Mechanical Rev Counter. The rev counter doesn't work, the problem is with the gear in the dizzy. It turns, but if you hold the cable at the rev counter end and you apply some resistance it stops spinning. Tried a different cable, same thing. So I am guessing the female part of the gear that the cable inserts into has rounded and wont turn the cable when there's any kind of resistance. The gear looks simple to change, but doesn't seem to be available anywhere. Anyone know of a source? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted September 29, 2016 Report Share Posted September 29, 2016 IF there is that amount of wear in the dizzie, then a rebuild would be good. Distributor Doctor: http://www.distributordoctor.com/ JOhn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted September 30, 2016 Report Share Posted September 30, 2016 is it the gear has come loose on the shaft or the shaft drive to the cable has worn if the gear has stripped then its dizzy doc to the rescue if the gears loose then supaglue, chemimetal, or araldite etc may recover it, these do shread if the instrument has a seizing spindle being a Lucas is a hard to find now but are repairable and the delco were pretty poor and they tend to be mend to destruction Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Groves Posted October 1, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2016 Thanks for the replies. I think the gear in the shaft is fine. If you removed the cable from the dizzy you can see the cable connection spinning quite happily and if you pop your finger tip on it, it continues to spin. If you connect a cable to the dizzy the speedo end is spinning, but apply any sort of pressure to this and then it stops. I hoped this was the cable end rounded off, so tried a spare cable but with the same result, so concluded it was rounding of the female connection on the drive. I could glue the cable into the dizzy drive I guess to see what happens, bit of a bodge but might see out a few miles. I guess there's always H&G Ignition who do the refurbs for the club shop, they might be able to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted October 16, 2016 Report Share Posted October 16, 2016 H&H Ignitions did both my GT6 Delco dizzies and they came back looking superb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Groves Posted October 17, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2016 H&H Supplied the part, £23ish delivered. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
euan douglas Posted April 26, 2017 Report Share Posted April 26, 2017 To change the tacho drive gear do you need a new core plug or can you use the old one? New ones are listed as no longer available. Euan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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