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>On Sun, 19 Oct 97 14:45:32 -0400 Larry Macy
><macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu> writes:
>>If this is
>>diff in the MG - 18V engine, somebody will say - Barney?? Lawrie??
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>There are more holes drilled in the block from the main bearing journals
>to the camshaft bearing journals (three or five places), so oil flows
>from the main bearing area to the cam bearings.
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>There is also one vertical hole from the rear camshaft bearing journal
>where oil can flow upwards to the top of the block, through the head
>gasket, through the cylinder head, through the rear rocker shaft
>pedestal, and into the hollow rocker shaft. From there the oil flows out
>through radial holes in the rocker shaft to lubricate each of the rocker
>arm bearings. In each rocker arm there are two small drill holes.
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>Barney Gaylord
>1958 MGA with an attitude
Thanks for the clarification in the MG engine. I was speaking from
experience with Caterpillar and Waukesha industrial engines where the oil
flows from the pump to a gallery (Opps I said galley before) then to the
cam bearings then the crank. Actually from two seperate tubes.
As always I stand corrected from those w/ greater knowledge.
Thanks for the claification. But did it have to be so long? ;-)
Larry Macy
78 Midget
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