[Healeys] Fwd: Black watery sooty liquid

[i erbs]

What he said. My Austin Healey has done this since I started the engine 46
yeas ago

Ira Erbs
1959 AH 100-6
1967 MGB
Milwaukie, OR

On Fri, Apr 2, 2021, 11:13 PM Patrick & Caroline Quinn via Healeys <
healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:

> Hello
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> 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.
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> Our four year old Mercedes-Benz does the same.
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> 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.
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> Hoo Roo
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> Patrick Quinn
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> Blue Mountains, Australia
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> *From:* Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] *On Behalf Of *R
> F BEGANI via Healeys
> *Sent:* Saturday, 3 April 2021 4:37 PM
> *To:* Healey Email list
> *Subject:* [Healeys] Fwd: Black watery sooty liquid
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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
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> Bob Begani
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> -------- Original Message --------
> *Subject:* Black watery sooty liquid
> *From:* Bob Begani <rfbegani at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, April 2, 2021, 12:27 PM
> *To:* Bob Begani <rfbegani at gmail.com>
> *CC:*
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