<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/><title></title></head><body><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; text-decoration: none;">Chris,<br /></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; text-decoration: none;">Yes, when the Owners Manual names a recommended type of oil I use it when I still can get it, as this is what they used at the factory and they knew why they recommended it. Castrol or Penrite or Millers or even others still produce the right spec.mineral oil. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; text-decoration: none;">And these recommended oils kept my classic cars running for 50years plus. So why shall I use different and perhaps ruin my gearbox, engine or rear axle?</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; text-decoration: none;">Sorry I still can´t believe modern synthetic oils are tested in Austin-Healey engines, gearboxes and rear axles and are formulated to keep modern engines/gearboxes/axles/etc. of a much different design running.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; text-decoration: none;">For me:</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; text-decoration: none;">No synthetic oils in my classic cars!</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; text-decoration: none;">I like to have crossplies fitted to my classic cars of the 50/60s, but that´s my personal taste as for me it gives a period driving experience I like.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; text-decoration: none;">I can´t get the original paint anymore, so I use modern paint matching the original colour and appearance.<br /></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; text-decoration: none;">Sorry I do not fill in 50 year old air in the tyres (hard to get) and I have 2bars front and 2bars rear filled in.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; text-decoration: none;">And yes, I drive my Austin-Healeys, but not daily, as we also have modern cars here to drive in daily madness. Much more confortable by the way and better suitable to my daily business. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; text-decoration: none;">Josef Eckert</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Betreff: Re: [Healeys] Differential oil</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">Datum: 2016-10-31T15:21:51+0100</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">Von: "Chris Dimmock" <austin.healey@gmail.com></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">An: "josef-eckert@t-online.de" <josef-eckert@t-online.de></p>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hey Josef,</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Your criticism and sarcastic posts have finally arced me up to respond. </span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So - if I'm reading your posts - from somewhere back in the 1950's - you don't use anything that isn't in the owners manual, or the driver's handbook?</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"And nothing else"</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No synthetic oils? </span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No modern tires/ tyres?</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No modern paint?</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Is that your point? Nothing that is not in the manuals from 50 plus years ago? </span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tyres? Tires? </span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seriously?</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mk III drivers handbook</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Radial-ply tyres (Dunlop SP41)<br /> Tyres:<br />Size, 5.90 - 15 tubed.<br />Front, 20 lb. /sq. in<br />Rear, 25 lb. /sq. in<br />Maximum performance speeds:<br />increase all pressure by 5 lb./sq.in </span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So that's what you run on your Healey?</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span>That's clearly only ok in your book if you use 1966 air. Modern air is clearly not acceptable. </div>
<div>Those are your tyres? </div>
<div>Dunlop SP41</div>
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<div>So your tyres are 50 plus years old. </div>
<div><a href="http://www.longstonetyres.co.uk/page/dunlop-sp41">http://www.longstonetyres.co.uk/page/dunlop-sp41</a></div>
<div>Seriously? </div>
<div>You whinge about this list every couple of years, because it's not technical enough for you. </div>
<div>And yet you advocate not using oil designed or manufactured in the past 15 years?</div>
<div>So you run 50 plus year old tyres?</div>
<div>So why don't you write us a technical article advocating how oil/ tires/ tyres/ batteries/ etc have not changed /improved a Healey in the past 50 plus years. </div>
<div>Do you drive your car Josef?</div>
<div>Seriously. You call yourself into account by criticizing people who use modern oil etc and drive their cars. </div>
<div>Write us a technical article. </div>
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<div>Seriously. </div>
<div>Chris</div>
<div><a href="http://www.myaustinhealey.com">www.myaustinhealey.com</a></div>
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