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<p class="MsoNormal">Harold,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is possible to have a leak free Austin-Healey, once the oil has all drained out!!!!!!!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jean</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:manifold@telus.net">Harold Manifold</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>January 11, 2020 10:53 AM<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:warthodson@aol.com">warthodson@aol.com</a>; <a href="mailto:050.rpl@gmail.com">
050.rpl@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">healeys@autox.team.net</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Healeys] Does synthetic oil leak more?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">Hello,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">All of your observations are a factor. Here are some comments from an article about synthetic oil leaks:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Synthetic oil WILL NOT cause leaks. It may however make already worn-out gaskets/seals more evident, by leaking past them, and/or cleaning any sludge and other gunk that was sealing the existing leak. This is because Synthetic oil has much
better cleaning properties, flows much better than conventional oil, and hence also lubricates much better than conventional oil (This is a good thing).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">I use a GL-4 synthetic gear oil in my transmission and it leaks. Believe it not not one of the leak mechanisms is from the interior along the bolts and drips from
the bolt head on the exterior. I am changing the gaskets on my transmission and trying bonded sealing neoprene washers on the fasteners.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">I may be pursuing the impossible dream of a leak free Healey.... Harold</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> warthodson@aol.com [mailto:warthodson@aol.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, January 11, 2020 7:24 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> manifold@telus.net; 050.rpl@gmail.com; healeys@autox.team.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Does synthetic oil leak more?</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">I am not a leak expert, but I find this hard to understand. For there to be a leak there has to be a hole. Is it because the synthetic oil molecules are smaller than
the non-synthetic oil molecules? Given that the "holes" come in different sizes this seems illogical. Is it because the synthetic oil is more slippery? How is that measured? How much more slippery is it?
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Gary Hodson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Harold Manifold <manifold@telus.net><br>
To: 'R. Lindsay' <050.rpl@gmail.com>; 'Healey List' <healeys@autox.team.net><br>
Sent: Fri, Jan 10, 2020 7:55 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Rear Axle Oil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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The biggest difference you will notice with synthetic gear oils is they leak<br>
more than non-synthetic. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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