X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.120] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.1) with ESMTP id 2835006 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:41:22 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=75.180.132.120; envelope-from=eanderson@carolina.rr.com Received: from edward2 ([75.191.186.236]) by cdptpa-omta06.mail.rr.com with SMTP id <20080407004044.YNVA4667.cdptpa-omta06.mail.rr.com@edward2> for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2008 00:40:44 +0000 Message-ID: <000d01c89847$bf43f120$2402a8c0@edward2> From: "Ed Anderson" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" References: Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] What comes first; the chicken or the egg? Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 20:38:49 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 I have my oil filter before the oil goes into the cooler and has worked fine for 400 hours. Ed Ed Anderson Rv-6A N494BW Rotary Powered Matthews, NC eanderson@carolina.rr.com http://www.andersonee.com http://members.cox.net/rogersda/rotary/configs.htm#N494BW http://www.dmack.net/mazda/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 8:00 PM Subject: [FlyRotary] What comes first; the chicken or the egg? > The Mazda manual shows the oil being cooled via the oil cooler before it > is filtered. One would assume that you would want the oil filtered before > you ran it through anything. Why did they design it this way? What are > most doing? Are you cooling the oil before filtering or are you filtering > the oil before cooling? If one was to stick to the original design and > utilize the original oil pressure outlet as the oil supply feed to the > re-drive, it would appear that this oil supply to the re-drive is > un-filtered oil although the oil is cooled. I would assume that we would > want filtered oil to the re-drive. I am not sure how to tackle this > problem. Any and all input into this subject is greatly appreciated. > > -- > Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ > Archive and UnSub: > http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/flyrotary/List.html >