On Sep 8, 4:30 am, "Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:
In article . com,
Bret Ludwig wrote:

Lucas ones of course required periodic lubrication - but if this was
done had a decent enough service life.
Oh, they'd last longer than you wanted them. The coils would fail,
the points would shift and lose time-Mallory did a land office
business in aftermarket ones for all BL products that took Ford parts
as I recall.

All points 'shift'. If they didn't there'd be no adjustment provided.
As regards Mallory I recently fitted a Unilite to my Rover V-8 to replace
the high mileage DLM8 Lucas having been assured I'd notice a vast
improvement. And there was none. Of course if you have a modified engine
the ability to easily alter the advance curve would be useful. But mine is
standard.

My experience with the Unilite is that the sensor gets dusty and it
quits frequently, but in England maybe the damper weather keeps dust
down. Mallory has made Unilites for decades. Drag racers like them,
and drag racers are 90% of the business. I would be much happier if
they made one using the Chrysler system, which unlike HEI will fit the
diameter of the normal distributor and is electrically and
mechanically a lot more reliable than Unilite or the awful Ford
systems.