[Healeys] Fwd: Black watery sooty liquid

[Patrick & Caroline Quinn]

Hello

 

Both my Healey and Austin-Healey do the same. It’s soot in the exhaust system mixing with the moist exhaust gases and escaping out the exhaust pipe. It’s normal and if you let the exhaust system heat up to normal operating temperature it will stop, which is also normal.

 

Our four year old Mercedes-Benz does the same.

 

When you burn a litre of petrol it mixes with oxygen and gives off carbon dioxide and water plus heat of course. That carbon dioxide and water has to go somewhere and if the engine/exhaust is hot enough it evaporates but if it’s not warm it comes out as dirty water.

 

Hoo Roo

 

Patrick Quinn

Blue Mountains, Australia

 

From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of R F BEGANI via Healeys
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Every time I start my BJ8 black sooty liquid come out of the exhaust. Should I drill a hole in the muffled and resonators to let it out. Idea on what size an where on stainless steel mufflers 30 years old and still going strong

Bob Begani



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