Rebuild!!!

Advanced Distributors offers a full distributor rebuilding service for ALL Lucas distributors, as well as most collectors and antique vehicles! Our rebuilding service is the most comprehensive available, despite our bargain pricing. Besides Lucas, we also rebuild Bosch and Delco distirbutors on a regular basis. Other brands are welcome by inquiry!!!

If you don't see your vehicle listed, don't despair! Chances are good that we DO work on them, and probably have a performance ignition curve designed to suit your particular engine! Give us a call and we can talk about your options!

Our rebuilds all start with a thorough cleaning of every component. I'm not talking about just running them through a parts washer or degreasing them - they must look new to perform new. Only at this point can accurate measurements be taken to perform all the machine work necessary!

From here all the parts are machined as necessary to elimiante play, slop, wear, whatever you want to call it until a precision assembly is fitted back together. This is NOT your typical rebuild where parts are just cleaned and reassembled. The factory tolerances go out the window. Every distributor built here is a hand-assembled masterpiece specifically assembled for its intended vehicle!!!

The last step of a rebuild is choosing appropriate advance springs and testing the distributor on our Sun machine. Then its fitted with its fully rebuilt breaker plate, and the trigger of choice is installed for testing, whether it be points, Pertronix, Crane, Allison, Pirhanna, Lumenition, or any form of factory electronic ignition.

 

Recurve!!! This is our true specialty! to "recurve" a distributor is to get the timing exactly correct at every single rpm possible, not just at idle. This allows your engine to rev freely through the rpms much faster and more efficiently than ever before. This is done in many ways, most frequently by replacing the advance springs with our custom designed springs. Here's a pic of a very small portion of our inventory - some properly prepared 25D weights, DM2 weights, and a few of our most popular advance springs (over 2000 springs in those little containers!) We use the industry standard Sun distributor machine, and keep a Snap-On Distrib-U-Scope as a backup!

Vacuum Advance Rebuilds!!! We can rebuild your Lucas vacuum advance to new specifications! Starting at just $30, we can install a new fuel resistant diaphragm to bring your advance mechanism back to life. Shown below is our basic service, replating optional. We are prototyping seals for some vacuum retard units that cannot yet be repaired (vacuum nipple on the distributor side), but check back for progress!!!

Cracked Housing Repairs!!! We can repair the common crack found at the clamping ring of many 25D distributors. We machine off the broken portion and press fit a laser cut steel ring in place of it. The steel ring is bonded to the housing, positively engaged with internal tabs to prevent rotation, and absolutley crush proof, no matter how bent your distributor clamp is!!! Shown below is a before/after shot.

Distributor finishes: We have a new machine that allows us to give a beautiful satin or gloss finish to your distributor housing! Shown below on left, machine polished, middle is machine satin, right is glass bead finished. There is no issue with media impingement and the finish is more consistent than hand finishing. The pictures don't to it justice. My photography skills are pretty poor, but you get the idea!

 

We're constantly striving to find new ways to improve the Lucas disitrbutors. We have quite a few tricks up our sleeves, and can probably tackle any issues you may encounter!