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May 26, 2014 11:42 am
May 26, 2014 11:42 am
Subject: cross shaft oil supply
My new 2ltr is now road registered and I am practising my gear change and find out little faults and improve the car. Recently there seemed to be some "whining" from either magneto or cross shaft which drives it, which has not been there in the beginning and sounds like something is not oiled well. I have temporarily replaced the magneto by a coil system (magneto failure, will report later), which did not change this sound. I suspected the oil supply to the cross shaft. You see the fitting where it is attached, marked with the yellow arrow in the attached image.
I removed the fitting to check if it is blocked. Result is I could not blow through or look through but fitted to the oil supply tube and left open at the side where it normally is attached to the drive, and running the engine for a second, oil flows out slowly. Is this a correct restrictor, should there be a restrictor ?
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My new 2ltr is now road registered and I am practising my gear change and find out little faults and improve the car. Recently there seemed to be some "whining" from either magneto or cross shaft which drives it, which has not been there in the beginning and sounds like something is not oiled well. I have temporarily replaced the magneto by a coil system (magneto failure, will report later), which did not change this sound. I suspected the oil supply to the cross shaft. You see the fitting where it is attached, marked with the yellow arrow in the attached image.
I removed the fitting to check if it is blocked. Result is I could not blow through or look through but fitted to the oil supply tube and left open at the side where it normally is attached to the drive, and running the engine for a second, oil flows out slowly. Is this a correct restrictor, should there be a restrictor ?
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