[Healeys] Workshop manuals - Austin and Jaguar

Sun Feb 17 02:13:52 MST 2019

But it still was crap!

Kees Oudesluijs

Op 17-2-2019 om 02:00 schreef Patrick & Caroline Quinn:
>
> G’day Stephen
>
> I think the 1800 (or the Land Crab as many called it) was the best of 
> all the Issigonis derived vehicles.
>
> Hoo Roo
>
> Patrick
>
> *From:*s.hutchings at rogers.com [mailto:s.hutchings at rogers.com]
> *Sent:* Sunday, 17 February 2019 10:05 AM
> *To:* Patrick & Caroline Quinn
> *Cc:* WILLIAM B LAWRENCE; Mark Donaldson; healeys at autox.team.net
> *Subject:* Re: [Healeys] Workshop manuals - Austin and Jaguar
>
> I wouldn’t have called the hydrolastic machine a “gun”...it was a box 
> on diagonal legs with two ball handled levers sticking out of it and a 
> pressure gauge. I always thought that it looked like something from a 
> fifties science fiction film!
>
> I had an 1800, and I used to borrow one of these gizmos to top up a 
> slow leak...the fluid did smell like anti freeze, but I remember being 
> told to protect my eyes while using it.
>
> Stephen
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>
> On Feb 16, 2019, at 11:37 PM, Patrick & Caroline Quinn 
> <p_cquinn at tpg.com.au <mailto:p_cquinn at tpg.com.au>> wrote:
>
>     G’day
>
>     Initially the suspension of the BMC Mini was built around rubber
>     under compression. Later when the 1100 series (Austin, Morris, MG,
>     Riley, Wolseley and Vanden Plas badged versions) the BMC
>     Hydrolastic suspension was introduced including into the Mini.
>
>     The Hydrolastic fluid itself was an equal mix of alcohol and
>     distilled water plus a couple of other small additives to make it
>     taste terrible as UK customs officials were concerned that people
>     would drink it. That’s a true story.
>
>     It therefore had anti-freeze properties
>
>     While a fluid, to service the suspension a special gun was
>     required to pump it into the system and unless you had one it was
>     not possible to do it yourself.
>
>     In mid-1978 BMC or BLMC as it was known then, did away with the
>     Hydrolastic suspension and introduced their Hydragas system.
>
>     Hoo Roo
>
>     Patrick
>
>     *From:*Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] *On Behalf
>     Of *WILLIAM B LAWRENCE
>     *Sent:* Sunday, 27 January 2019 5:31 PM
>     *To:* Mark Donaldson; simon.lachlan at alexarevel.plus.com
>     <mailto:simon.lachlan at alexarevel.plus.com>; 'Charles Schott';
>     editorgary at aol.com <mailto:editorgary at aol.com>
>     *Cc:* healeys at autox.team.net <mailto:healeys at autox.team.net>
>     *Subject:* Re: [Healeys] Workshop manuals - Austin and Jaguar
>
>     So did the hydrolastics run on vegetable or mineral?...
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>     *From:*Healeys <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net
>     <mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net>> on behalf of Mark
>     Donaldson <ardmorebusiness at xtra.co.nz
>     <mailto:ardmorebusiness at xtra.co.nz>>
>     *Sent:* Sunday, January 6, 2019 9:59 PM
>     *To:* simon.lachlan at alexarevel.plus.com
>     <mailto:simon.lachlan at alexarevel.plus.com>; 'Charles Schott';
>     editorgary at aol.com <mailto:editorgary at aol.com>
>     *Cc:* healeys at autox.team.net <mailto:healeys at autox.team.net>
>     *Subject:* Re: [Healeys] Workshop manuals - Austin and Jaguar
>
>     Obviously the very model of a modern Major General.   ;-)
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>     *From:*simon.lachlan at alexarevel.plus.com
>     <mailto:simon.lachlan at alexarevel.plus.com>
>     [mailto:simon.lachlan at alexarevel.plus.com]
>     *Sent:* Monday, 7 January 2019 4:18 a.m.
>     *To:* 'Mark Donaldson'; 'Charles Schott'; editorgary at aol.com
>     <mailto:editorgary at aol.com>
>     *Cc:* healeys at autox.team.net <mailto:healeys at autox.team.net>
>     *Subject:* RE: [Healeys] Workshop manuals - Austin and Jaguar
>
>     A friend of mine’s dad had the MG version of the 1300. BRG….looked
>     nice and went well. Sadly, said friend and I took it out to a pub
>     one night and wrecked it on the way home. Actually, we were not at
>     all drunk. It was absolutely pouring with rain and, driving down a
>     steep lane with banks on both side, he aquaplaned it quite
>     spectacularly. We spun round and round. Seemingly, on each
>     revolution, a startled oncoming driver would miraculously miss us.
>     It was 50% inexperience, 50% stupidity. The devil looks after his
>     own! I guess we were about 18 yrs old. Dangerous age.
>
>     The dad was a Major General and could be quite fierce but he took
>     it surprisingly well!!
>
>     Simon
>
>     *From:*Healeys <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net
>     <mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net>> *On Behalf Of *Mark Donaldson
>     *Sent:* 06 January 2019 04:39
>     *To:* 'Charles Schott' <schottc at knology.net
>     <mailto:schottc at knology.net>>; editorgary at aol.com
>     <mailto:editorgary at aol.com>
>     *Cc:* healeys at autox.team.net <mailto:healeys at autox.team.net>
>     *Subject:* Re: [Healeys] Workshop manuals - Austin and Jaguar
>
>     Charlie,
>
>     The Austin and Morris 1100s and 1300s were very popular compact
>     BMC four-door saloons in the sixties and seventies.
>
>     MG badged them too.  A friend had one with twin S.U.s  It was a
>     fun car.
>
>     They all had 'hydrolastic' suspension.  You can check that out on
>     Google.
>
>     Thousands were assembled CKD right here in Auckland by the
>     Dominion Motor Company.
>
>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMC_ADO16
>
>     Mark
>
>     Ardmore, NZ
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>     *From:*Charles Schott [mailto:schottc at knology.net]
>     *Sent:* Sunday, 6 January 2019 3:43 a.m.
>     *To:* editorgary at aol.com <mailto:editorgary at aol.com>
>     *Cc:* healeys at autox.team.net <mailto:healeys at autox.team.net>
>     *Subject:* Re: [Healeys]Workshop manuals – Austin and Jaguar
>
>     Gary,
>
>     I'm looking for a workshop manual for my AH 100 BN1. What does the
>     BMC 1100-1300 cover? Thanks.
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Charlie
>
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