> -----Original Message-----
> From: Westerdale, Bob
> Subject: RE: Lubricants
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> After the oil has passed
> a leak, its
> pressure is reduced by an amount related to the amount of oil
> which bled off
> through the clearance between journal and bearing. Large
> clearance=lots of
> oil bleed down=larger pressure drop. Of course this becomes
> harder to
> assess if they used a lot of flow restrictors in the line....
> Your thoughts?
This is true to some extent, because the oil gallery does present _some_
restriction to flow.
IMO the difference is quite small however, because the oil gallery doesn't
present _much_ restriction to flow.
Hopefully, Brian will complete some measurements and let us know the actual
numbers.
Randall
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