[Healeys] synthetic oils

Mr. Bill bn1 at pacbell.net
Sat Jul 26 23:13:41 MDT 2008


Jim,

The same happened to a friend of mine in his early BN1 #484.  Years ago 
he did an oil change to Mobile 1.  He got up the next morning to find it 
all over his garage floor.  That was enough for me to stay with Dino Oil.

He's on this List.  Maybe he'll chime in now with the whole story.

Bill Barnett
BN1M

James Shope wrote:
> has anyone other than me had any problem using synthetic oils and having all
> the seals and gaskets start to leak.  modern cars are designed for synthetics,
> but my old healey was not happy with synthetic oil.   BTW, i had no leaks i my
> bn6 trans until i put in redline and now it is oozing.  could be coincidence,
> or not.  anyone else notice this?   healeymanjim.
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