<div dir="auto">What he said. My Austin Healey has done this since I started the engine 46 yeas ago<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Ira Erbs<br>1959 AH 100-6<br>1967 MGB<br>Milwaukie, OR</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 2, 2021, 11:13 PM Patrick & Caroline Quinn via Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_3917029762693405524WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hello<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Our four year old Mercedes-Benz does the same.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hoo Roo<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Patrick Quinn<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Blue Mountains, Australia<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><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""> Healeys [mailto:<a href="mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">healeys-bounces@autox.team.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>R F BEGANI via Healeys<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 3 April 2021 4:37 PM<br><b>To:</b> Healey Email list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Healeys] Fwd: Black watery sooty liquid<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">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<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Bob Begani<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br><br>-------- Original Message --------<br><b>Subject:</b> Black watery sooty liquid<br><b>From:</b> Bob Begani <<a href="mailto:rfbegani@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">rfbegani@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 2, 2021, 12:27 PM<br><b>To:</b> Bob Begani <<a href="mailto:rfbegani@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">rfbegani@gmail.com</a>><br><b>CC:</b> <br><br><br><br></span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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