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[Healeys] A Mystery

Subject: [Healeys] A Mystery
From: coudesluijs at chello.nl (Oudesluys)
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 09:38:50 +0200
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Correct!!
Kees Oudesluijs


Op 25-9-2017 om 0:50 schreef Bob Simmen:
> Would it be correct, that on my BJ8 that has been sitting for 25 years, when 
> I blew the fuel line with air from the pump to the tank due to a clogged line 
> or filter, and it suddenly opened up, I probably blew a clogged filter off 
> the end of the pickup line inside the tank?
>
> Then, would it also be correct, that if I now have a filter between the tank 
> and the fuel pump, the only negative would be that I now have just one more 
> rattle?
>
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Tom 
> Felts
> Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2017 3:35 PM
> To: Perry <healeyguy at aol.com>; healeylist <healeys at autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] A Mystery
>
> 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:
>
> =============
> 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
>
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
>
> 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
>
>
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