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MG MGA - Points Help

After years of using quickfit points, I bought a beautiful NOS Lucas set, with contact pads the same diameter, lovely convex surfaces, a thin film of lubricant, all in that brown greaseproof paper.

There's no post to pivot on! Of course, quickfits have an integral post.

Do I need a new baseplate with a post? Or is there a separate component I can get?

[For the moment, I've fitted another quickfit set, which was expedient but disappointing]
Nick

Yep, different base plate. I assume you have a 25D4 distributor, so widely available at least formerly. Possibly from Mini places, because the heavy spring 32oz Cooper S points did not come as quikklick.
I seem to recall using only the movable top plate with the early base plate to convert earlier MGA distributors.

FRM
FR Millmore

Nick, don't the quick-fit points have a hollow post that slips over the solid post on the base-plate? That's the way the points fit on my distributor.
Lindsay Sampford

Lindsay-
Yes, but later points plates (replacement on MGA) deleted the post, after the introduction of the kwikacrap points. I've even seen aftermarket replacements for quiklick points that did not have a hollow centre, so people sawed the post off if they had one.

FRM
FR Millmore

Thank you Fletcher, thank you Lindsay. I guess I will leave the quickfit on for now, having got the timing just right yesterday, and I'll investigate a spare parts distributor that's on a shelf somewhere in the garage. After I find it, that is.

On timing MGAs - memo to self:- must keep a spare 12v battery in the garage.
Nick

This thread was discussed between 23/06/2012 and 25/06/2012

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