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Kevin,
I guess this will be one of a hundred responses,
however -
1.Tracy's way of doing his PSRU is OK.
2. Motor oils is likely to get contaminated with
2-stroke oil if your using it (most are) and carbon particles from the
combustion process which act as an abrasive.
3. Motor oils need to be changed after 12 months
even in low use situations.
4. Heavy duty of the gears ( as in aviation use)
may need pressure directional spraying, whereby most gearboxes have splash
lubrication.
An ideal situation would be a separate cooling of
PSRU oil with synthetic lube oil, with pressure fed directional spraying of the
planetaries and their bearings from it's own pump and reserve/
cooler.
Just my opinion.
George ( down under)
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Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 3:39
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Subject: [FlyRotary] redrive lube
i am asking this question with only the
experience back in college years of putting a buick v-6 in a 1953 willys, no
race car experience etc......
auto transmissions have special fluid and
coolers because of the torque converters, right? manual transmissions
just have gear lube, which, it seems, you put in and basically forget
about. what is different about the PSRU redrive from a manual
transmission? why can't it be self-contained with gear lube and
forgotten? are planetary gears
different from a manual transmission? are they fed with an oil flow and
coolers in trucks? i'm sure all of this has already been answered and
thought out. ken said he keeps his redrive lube separate from the
dirty engine oil. why are tracy's redrives plumbed as part of the engine
oil flow? kevin (just
curious)
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