Before restoring my car, I used to use whatever nearly empty oil bottles I had
on hand, to dribble the dampers full, and never had a problem...... Of
course, now that it's restored,....I'm much more sophisticated.....
Dave J.
----- Original Message -----
From: JustBrits_com
To: healeys@autox.team.net
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 12:27 AM
Subject: Re: front carb damper
Gee Alan;
<<Don't use multi wieghts in the dampers...>>
I have been using Castrol GTX 20W50 in Hortense for over TWO decades!!
Serviced a couple HUNDRED cars with both SU and Z/S and used same.
Guess I'm wrong, huh??
Ed
'63 BJ-7 (Hortense THE Healey)
'70 El Camino (Blackie) [daily driver]
'70 El Camino (er, un-named<F>) [daily driver & featured on my web site]
'73 Black Tulip MGB (Murial)
'04 Malibu Maxx (Silivia) [wife's but GREAT (ugh?) vehicle]
Founding Member & Delegate, ILLINI Chapter - AHCA (25+ years)
Member & Tech person, AHCUSA
Member of far to many othe LBC Clubs to List
Member, NECOA (El Caminos)
PS: Oh yeah, and only a tad over 80,000 MILES on Hortense. Rats, I HATE
it
when I'm wrong!!
PPS: LMAO
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