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Granted Rusty......
No seal material will save you when things get hot enough
to
melt the bearing material !! We are talking oil temps probably no more than
the mid to high two hundred F range where the Viton
seals start to break down
and harden.......IMHO
Hi
Kelly,
I found the message I was looking for, and here's a
link to the archive:
Maybe this will safe Lynn some typing. If I
understand correctly, he's saying that the failure from overheating the oil will
be a rotor bearing. I "assume" this is with stock Mazda oil seals, and not
even Viton.
Don't get me wrong, I don't see any reason NOT to
use the TES o-rings, and I'll probably plan on using them for the next
engine I assemble. In the mean time, it would be great to hand a set
of these to Lynn or Leon, and let them give us a professional report. Both
of them assemble more engines in a year than any of us will in a lifetime, and
their engines get run hard, so it would make a good test. I would
happily contribute toward a set of o-rings that we could GIVE to either of
those guys.
Cheers,
Rusty (rounding up all the RV-3 stuff)
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