Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: flyrotary Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 21:52:43 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from droid2.spawar.navy.mil ([128.49.192.70] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1b6) with ESMTP id 2365174 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 27 May 2003 18:58:24 -0400 Received: from deskdog (airscoop.nosc.mil [128.49.41.135]) by droid2.spawar.navy.mil (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h4RMwB407751 for ; Tue, 27 May 2003 15:58:11 -0700 X-Original-Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20030527155255.00a77ef0@mailsd1.spawar.navy.mil> X-Sender: willsm@mailsd1.spawar.navy.mil X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 X-Original-Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 15:58:09 -0700 X-Original-To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" From: Mike Wills Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: oil return location? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=====================_27004450==_.ALT" X-MailScanner: Found to be clean --=====================_27004450==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Rusty, Tracy should confirm this but I think you want your oil return to enter the pan above the oil level in the pan. Otherwise you risk oil backing up in the redrive. You also risk pressurizing the drive and possibly blowing a seal. I know in turbo installs this is true and a return line into the pan below oil level is a definite no-no. I plan to return oil to the cover plate where the oil metering pump used to be. I think this is where Tracy returns oil as well. Mike Wills At 06:43 PM 5/27/2003 -0400, you wrote: > The drain plug from the oil pan will fit and I have drilled and tapped > a drain plug to make a fitting. > > Ken Welter > >Now that I ve discovered these fittings, I ll probably return the redrive >oil directly to the pan, via a 14mm to AN6 fitting that I ll put in the >drain plug hole. >Rusty --=====================_27004450==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Rusty,

Tracy should confirm this but I think you want your oil return to enter the pan above the oil level in the pan. Otherwise you risk oil backing up in the redrive. You also risk pressurizing the drive and possibly blowing a seal. I know in turbo installs this is true and a return line into the pan below oil level is a definite no-no.

I plan to return oil to the cover plate where the oil metering pump used to be. I think this is where Tracy returns oil as well.

Mike Wills

At 06:43 PM 5/27/2003 -0400, you wrote:

The drain plug from the oil pan will fit and I have drilled and tapped a drain plug to make a fitting.

Ken Welter

Now that I ve discovered these fittings, I ll probably return the redrive oil directly to the pan, via a 14mm to AN6 fitting that I ll put in the drain plug hole.
Rusty

--=====================_27004450==_.ALT--