[Healeys] A Mystery

[tomfelts at windstream.net (Tom Felts)]

Mine was not an aftermarket tsnk.  It was an original.  It was filled with 
debris when I took it out. 
Tom
---- Perry <healeyguy at aol.com> wrote: 

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All aftermarket tanks that I have taken a part did not have the slide over 
plastic screen. Its only a filter in a general sense as it will pass fairly 
large particles compared to any of the modern inline filters available today. 
Hey in the old days we didn?t worry to much about filtering things.  The 
engines leaked enough that you ended up running fresh oil (one quart at a time) 
between oil changes and the air filters basically kept birds out of the carbs.  
Who would be concerned about microscopic bits that would pug up a carb needle 
and seat that hardly ever closed or a jet that changed delivered fuel volume 
every time the engine revved?  After all that consider that DMH only thought 
our precious little Austin Healeys would last about 10 years before they would 
be junk or junked! I had 52 years of ownership out of ours and its not showing 
its age to bad at 62 years and one month as of yesterday.
Perry

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From: Bob Spidell
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2017 12:09 PM
To: Tom Felts; healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] A Mystery

Thanks.? I suspect aftermarket tanks may not have it.

Bob