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Re: [FlyRotary] redrive lube
Tracy,s gearbox has plain
bearings on the prop shaft so it needs a high flow high pressure oil
system to lube them, also being the planet is spinning on the 2.85 its
throwing the oil away from it so the planet bearings could get starved
so I think it needs an oil jet pointing an oil steam at them so you
would not need a real high pressure high flow system to lube them, if
you had needle bearings on the prop shaft they would need a minimal of
oil as all I use on my cog belt unit is just an oil bath as you
mentioned.
I plan on using 0-40 Mobil One
synthetic oil with an electric pump on my Dodge 3.21
redrive.
Ken
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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