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Re: ehow.com link - "how to buy an austin healey

pretty good summary although the suggestion to put STP in the shocks sounds like a recipe for failure. Can't agree on the exhaust pipes out the side either unless rally is your game.

Cheers,
John
 
Re: ehow.com link - "how to buy an austin healey

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pretty good summary although the suggestion to put STP in the shocks sounds like a recipe for failure. Can't agree on the exhaust pipes out the side either unless rally is your game.----------------------------------------
john,i think most of this summary is taken from printed material from the austin healey club tips,sounds very familiar,i first used stp in the healey shocks some time in the mid 1960s when i was long on great ideas and low on cash,cant say much has changed,anyway i never had a problem in doing this stp trick,never having told anyone this ive heard the "experts" say it would cause the shock to rip out chunks of shock mounts and large bits of the frame etc,not so in my case,and in the cases of the 15-20 other healey nuts i ran with back then and we all drove those cars very, very hard,it did give a rather solid ride though, rarely stoped the leaks for very long,godda agree with ya on the side exhaust,noise and fumes,not good. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cheers.gif
Cheers,
 
Re: ehow.com link - "how to buy an austin healey

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pretty good summary although the suggestion to put STP in the shocks sounds like a recipe for failure. Can't agree on the exhaust pipes out the side either unless rally is your game.

Cheers,
John

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/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/iagree.gif I don't know what them other Healey nuts was drinkin but it wasn't water thats for sure.---Keoke- /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Re: ehow.com link - "how to buy an austin healey

keoke,they only drank h20,perhaps it was the influance of combustable herbage,but i can tell you we used stp regularly without damage,at least to the cars. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yesnod.gif
 
Re: ehow.com link - "how to buy an austin healey

Well I guess then there just weren't any shocks and you guys were just floatin on STP!---Keoke /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
I don't know about the rest of the information but the mark 2's build date was March 61- Oct 63 and they had 3 hs4 carburettors up to jan 62 then went to 2 hs6. Least thats what it says in the Original Austin-Healey Guide. BR1
 
Re: ehow.com link - "how to buy an austin healey

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pretty good summary although the suggestion to put STP in the shocks sounds like a recipe for failure. Can't agree on the exhaust pipes out the side either unless rally is your game.


Cheers,
John

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Oh I don't know John, I've fought the tail dragging problem for awhile and still occasionly drag. I've thought of re-routing the tail pipes but then again unless you go full Rally spec's it just wouldn't look right.
Just my opinion; /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Re: ehow.com link - "how to buy an austin healey

keoke,we dindt drink the stp,we put it in the shocks,we even took the cars off road with no problems with the suspension at all,but yes it was a very stiff ride. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yesnod.gif
 
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