Cobber

In my experience Stags biggest problem was that bastard Lucas duel point distributor, the moving plates that the points were mounted on would get very loose, leaving the timing all over the place, resulting in overheating, I had a simple solution for this…..bin the shitty Lucas dissy and replace it with a Bosch dissy from a Ford Cleveland V8, I had to change the drive gear, using the one from the old Lucas dissy and drill it out to suit. The other thing I had to do was use 2 dissy clamps from a Holden red six engine as the Clevo dissy doesn’t have the slotted mounting flange.
This modification made the cars run so much better and so much more reliable.
The cooling system was pretty marginal on the things and I would always fit electric thermo fans, these days I’d be inclined to fit an electric water pump too as the internally mounted water pumps were bastards of things too!
Once properly sorted the Stag engine was pretty reliable.