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Skibum346:
Well... here am I stuck at work waiting for a new dizzy cap to be brought over by SWOMBO.

Last service (3 months ago...if that!) Put on a shiny lucas 8 pot dizzy... spare no expense...!

Wouldn't start today so man in yella van was called and he found that the centre brush bringing current from the king lead to the rotor arm had... well... gone up in a puff of smoke! All that was left of it was half a spring!

He tried to doctor in another brush from a 4pot dizzy cap but no success... so... wait for the next installment when wifie gets here!

Skibum

gtomo2:
You going to hate me now but i always keep a spare dissy,leads,rotor arm in the back of me disco. plus i was still at work at 6 pm. Hope you got it sorted in the end :roll:

Range Rover Blues:
I bought one from Halfords (not marked as Lucas) and got a strange lack of power at full throttle, smooth but definitely missfiring.  Fitted old cap, back to normal.

Went in the dealer for a genuine part and they offered me the same thing, blue and unbranded.  Got to hope it's ok from a dealer though don't you.

BTW, Lucas dealer told me that Lucas no longer exists as such and anything that's made is made under licence, so who knows where it's madeor by who, though the box says made in the uk :roll:

Skibum346:
Well... it's worse than I thought...  NEw dizzy cap made some difference, but nmot enough... runs like a bag of spanners! So I came home on the back of a truck last night.

God alone knows what it could be... even if it is a licensed part I would have expected a far greater improvement.

That said... the exhaust has been blowing heavily at the manifold y piece joint (as per other post), there was a suggestion that this is part of the cause... but it was fine Thursday morning... it sat parked up all day... can't think what could have caused the change.

Happily got a friendly mechanic coming over Saturday... hopefully he'll diagnose something really simple and easy to fix...  8-[

Jason2985:
:D
Run mine on LPG, was told to use genuine Lucas parts from main dealer.
Went to Halfords and asked who made their dizzy caps, guess who? Lucas

Jay

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