{"id":2433,"date":"2009-02-17T09:16:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T16:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/giuliettas.com\/?p=2433"},"modified":"2009-02-17T09:16:22","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T16:16:22","slug":"101-1300-rebuild-part-11-marelli-veloce-distributor-set-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/2009\/02\/17\/101-1300-rebuild-part-11-marelli-veloce-distributor-set-up\/","title":{"rendered":"101 1300 rebuild part #11: Marelli Veloce distributor set up"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may remember I earlier wrote about distributors and what I should do for one for this engine rebuild. I had the Lucas unit that was originally in this car in a box so I assumed I would just get it re-bushed, put new points, condenser etc in it and use it. I dropped it off a Jaan’s shop and a few days later he called me to tell me the shaft and drive section was all home-made and that it would not be cost effective to fix it, and that at its best it still wouldn’t be as good as a Bosch or Marelli unit. The next day I started pulling the 1600 apart that is going in the SS and I realized the Marelli distributor installed on it would be perfect for the 1300 rebuild, especially if I ever went with a Veloce spec conversion as it is a 750\/101 spec unit.<\/p>\n

\"dirty-marelli\"Here it is, fresh off the 00121 engine I am going to start rebuilding soon for the SS. It doesn’t look like much but the shaft spins nicely without having any side to side play. I am told these are pretty hard to find and expensive, so I will be careful.
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\"marelli-drive-end\"I took this picture so I could orient the shaft clamp roughly where it was originally when I put it back together. I’m not sure what the knurled knob on the side, seen here pointing roughly at 10 o’clock is for, but I imagine a light read of one of my manuals will enlighten me.
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\"marelli-coming-apart\"Fresh out of the swamp. Another shot to help me figure out where stuff goes if I forget. Notice the ‘e’ clip on the end of the points pivot shaft is missing. Also note how cruddy it is in this thing!
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\"marelli-more-apart\"Curious as always, I decided I had to go as deeply into this thing as I could to get it nice and clean and understand how it goes together and works. That spring is part of the advance system. How primitive.
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\"clean-advance-unit\"Here it is after the points mount plate has been removed and the guts washed out with white gas. The mechanism still spins freely without any undo slop so I am confident it will work. I am thinking of getting the advance mechanism ‘recurved’ but I want to see how it runs before I go to those lengths.
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\"marelli-back-together\"Viola! $150 worth of points, condenser, cap and rotor are finally getting put to use. Glenn gave me an ‘e’ clip since I didn’t have one and with the points pivot mechanism all set up correctly I was able to gap the points. The original parts are going to get cleaned up, the points refaced and put in a bag and tossed in the glove box just in case.
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\"marelli-on-car\"Home again, home again jiggity jig. I still need to set the timing, but I am going to do that after double checking the cam timing tomorrow. Doesn’t look too bad. I was picking up the old bits and found the original ‘e’ clip in the crud that fell out of it when I was cleaning it. I guess I’ll install the original tomorrow.
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This marks another small though time consuming job finished. Tomorrow I plan on taking a pair of side draft 40DCOE2’s by to get Glenn’s opinion and if they pass muster I may decide to use them instead of the down draft Solex. I have the new exhaust front section in the entry way of my house so I need to get a gasket for it too tomorrow. Good thing I’m off work this week so it can’t get in my way.<\/p>\n

Still to do: wiring, fan belt, throttle linkage, shift lever reassembly, upper radiator hose, fuel line\/filter, flywheel cover, exhaust, clutch rod and more. Will it ever get done? I hope so. Once this is all done I still have to convert back to drum brakes, replace the 105 rear end with a 101, install new weather stripping, a heater valve, fix shorts in the turn signal and wiper circuits and I’m sure more before this car is ‘done’. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

Click here to go to Part #12.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may remember I earlier wrote about distributors and what I should do for one for this engine rebuild. I had the Lucas unit that was originally in this car in a box so I assumed I would just get it re-bushed, put new points, condenser etc in it and use it. I dropped it … <\/p>\n

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