[Healeys] Oil Changing Questions

Greg Mandas gmandas at yahoo.com
Mon May 23 17:13:12 MDT 2011


You must have bought a used lift from the Green Hornet?

--- On Mon, 5/23/11,
S and T Miller <stmiller96 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: S and T Miller
<stmiller96 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Healeys] Oil Changing Questions
> To:
ah at jharper.demon.co.uk, healeys at autox.team.net
> Date: Monday, May 23, 2011,
9:21 AM
> The oil running out of the steer tube
> also happened to a fellow
AHSTC member
> when his AH 3000 was loaded onto a flat bed tow truck
>
(inclined).  He did not
> have his seats covered!
> 
> To solve the spin on
oil filter spill problem I lay my AH
> on its right side
> (passenger door) :)
> 
> The Millers
> "British Car Nuts"
> 
> 1957 Austin Healey 100-6 BN4 35299
> 
> 1959 Austin Healey 100-6 BN4 77219
> 
> 1964 MGB 40841
> 
> 1960 Austin
Healey Bugeye Sprite AN5 34351
> 
> "Always drive them, but remember each
drive in an antique
> car is a test
> drive."
> 
> 
> Message: 8
> Date: Mon,
23 May 2011 08:42:25 +0100
> From: John Harper <ah at jharper.demon.co.uk>
> To:
Editorgary at aol.com
> Cc: healeys at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Oil
Changing Questions
> Message-ID: <xKhqMlBh$g2NFwZG at jharper.demon.co.uk>
>
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> 
> This may be of
interest because it happened to me recently.
> I have high
> hydraulically
lifting ramps and lifted the front of the 100
> very high to
> work under the
front.
> 
> When I looked underneath I could see oil dripping from the
>
cotter pin
> so assumed that engine oil was flowing from the sump,
> through
the
> Archimedes screw and down the rear of the backplate. I
> quickly lowered
> the car a little and the dripping stopped after a while.
> Just as well
>
that the cotter pin was a loose fit as intended.
> 
> This is not the end of
the story. When I came to look
> inside the car I
> saw that steering gear oil
had run back up the column and
> down the
> steering wheel. Fortunately I had
a seat cover temporarily
> fitted.
> 
> So be warned you cannot raise the
front of a 100 beyond a
> certain point.
> 
> Regards
>
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