LOW HIGH MOWOG

Here’s a pic of one of the most seldom (is that proper English? “most seldom”?) seen parts of a Healey, the gearbox dipstick.

It’s pretty self-explanatory, but accessing it requires peeling back the carpet on the gearbox tunnel cover and removing a rubber plug in the tunnel cover, and consequently the gearbox oil level tends to be checked about once per ownership.   Certainly it doesn’t need to be checked as often as engine oil, but if you’re feeling industrious and oh-so-responsible and conscientious, you might want to put it on your list of pre-touring-season checks this year.  Or next.

For the uninitiated,  the meaning of “MOWOG” is subject to some controversy.  The two most-convincing theories say that it is an acronym for MOrris WOlseley Group or MOrris WOlseley mG, but if you put the word in a translator it shows that it is actually a transliteration of an ancient Greek word meaning roughly, Long Time No See.