[Healeys] Shocks

[Peter Caldwell]

Using the newer MGB bodies with the top mounted "turret" has some of 
this feature, though the turret isn't full of oil, but rather enables 
the hot oil expansion oil room, rather than seeping out of the 
seals.  It doesn't aid with cooling, though.
    The add-on reservoir, as you described, is  and was outlawed by 
some racing organizations.

A modern solution is to use a synthetic oil that can get much hotter 
without expanding or foaming. We recommend Redline's Heavy Suspension 
Fluid.  We are finding that long road racers have more shock-ness 
left after an hour than with conventional fluids.
         Peter C.
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At 09:45 PM 10/3/2012, Patrick and Caroline Quinn wrote:
>G'day
>
>The Armstrong shocks fitted to the Rally cars in period were modified.
>
>It had been found that in rough terrain the front shocks would be working so
>hard that they would overheat causing the oily to come close to boiling and
>then leak out.
>
>Ever ingenious, the Works mechanics fitted each front shock with its own
>separate oil reservoir that was really a converted brake fluid container.
>These were positioned above the shock with a pipe leading downwards so that
>the shock would always be full of shock oil.
>
>Hoo Roo
>
>Patrick Quinn
>Sydney, Australia