lucas dizzy cap?????

[disco-v8]

ok i know lucas doesnt exsist anymore so get hold of lucas parts will be hard..... but im sure there will be afew part floating around

well i bought a so called lucas dizzy cap today and need to no how you can spot the difference between a lucas one and a cheaper replica?????

i would of though it would have had lucas stamped onto it somewhere

[Landynuts]

ok i know lucas doesnt exsist anymore so get hold of lucas parts will be hard.

? I bought a nice new Lucas Dissy Cap (DDB107, STC8368G) from my local independent supplier on Friday so they are still about and easy to get hold of (not cheap though). There are no distinguishing marks on the cap its self, except the bright green box it came in.

[Range Rover Blues]

Proper ones did have a mark on them.  Just because it comes from the dealer it's no guarantee I'm afraid, I bought one from my local and it's exactly the saem as the Halfrauds one.

BTW, anyone know why the later 3.9 and 4.2 engines had a different dizzy cap?  Early ones are blue and later ones are black from what I've seen, though I don't know if the colour is a coincidence.

[disco-v8]

i wouldnt say that the early ones where blue and later black....

its more like the cheap replica ones are blue, and the lucas and some better quality replicas are black

[Range Rover Blues]

Ok I'd go with that, but what's the difference in the 4.2 cap? might explain why mine runs so bad when I swap the cap.

[disco-v8]

thats news to me as i thought that they are the same!!!!

when ive been looking for dizzy caps for mine, alot of them have said "for the 3.9 and 4.2"

maybe your dizzy is off a 3.5 but your using a 3.9/4.2 cap????? has your dizzy got the ingnition amp on the side of it or is it near the coil???

[Landynuts]

Proper ones did have a mark on them.  Just because it comes from the dealer it's no guarantee I'm afraid, I bought one from my local and it's exactly the saem as the Halfrauds one.

It's in a nice new Lucas box, what else do you want! OH and its black.

[jjsaul]

AFAIK genuine ones are black and copies are blue...or so seems to be the case.

*i think* LUCAS were bought out by TRW Automotive...or so i was told by a bloke from TRW on friday!