Assembling a Lucas 25D distributor (Morris Minor) + Points

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This video is a guide on assembling a Lucas 25D distributor and how to set the point gap. I am not a professional or an expert, so please use this guide at your own risk. This is what I did and what I learnt on the way when I took apart a Lucas 25D for inspection and cleaning before reassembling it into a spare points unit for my Minor.

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@wendyholmes3445 3 ай бұрын

The easiest way to put the centrifugal weights is ,put the weights on the distributor cam , then turn distributor upside down and place cam onto spindle . That’s how I taught hundreds of students in my Technical College motor vehicle classes , City & Guilds courses. It saves trying to get the pegs on the cam to line up with the holes in the weights. Give it a try ,hope it helps.

@rewis3d Жыл бұрын

Very cool. I bought a 1959 MM last week

@KingTriangleCat Жыл бұрын

Congrats! I’m sure you will have lots of fun tinkering around and driving it!

@EconoboxGarage Жыл бұрын

Very timely as I'm just refurbishing the 25D distributor in my Sprite! Thank you.

@KingTriangleCat Жыл бұрын

Best of luck!

@rarealstewart 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your knowledge, it's a big help for me!!

@millerignition Жыл бұрын

Very helpful thank you. I bought a chinese knock-off 25D (my car came without a distributor so no core). Gonna tare it down and make sure everything moves properly.

@KingTriangleCat Жыл бұрын

Best of luck, best to replace the points with some proper ones or convert to electronic ignition. The cheap ones have a tendency to fail unexpected within the first hundred miles.

@millerignition Жыл бұрын

It’s a power spark ever heard of them? What’s a good brand for points if you don’t mind me asking. I run a CDI box so points are no longer finicky (only used to trigger box no longer breaking much current)

@KingTriangleCat Жыл бұрын

@@millerignition yes have heard of them, I have something similar fitted to mine can’t quite remember now. Not entirely sure on brand of the points, it’s mainly the condenser that I’m aware is dodgy. I swapped an ancient condenser in from a used set of points to a set of new ones when I still ran points, never had a problem with the old as ones.

@millerignition Жыл бұрын

The vacuum advance wheel, is that an actual adjustment? Or do you just turn it until it clicks? Distributor is going in the car tonight. I will let you know how it runs with the dizzy on it. The powerspark had a wire jamming up the vacuum advance mechanism (wire was wedged tight up against the distributor cap) came with zero lube on anything and arrived with the points not lining up and also having a very large gap. Once these easily fixable things are addressed it looks ok.

@KingTriangleCat Жыл бұрын

Yes the advance wheel physically rotates the plate which the pickup or points are mounted to. This plate is free to move independently from the dizzy and when the wheel is turned it shifts it up or down advancing or retarding the timing. I remember I used a tiny cable tie to fasten the wires from the electronic ignition pickup to the old hole where the condenser went. Just so it doesn’t catch on anything. Best of luck, let me know how it goes!

@KingTriangleCat Жыл бұрын

Make sure to set the timing afterwards with a timing gun with the vacuum advance disconnected