Return-Path: Received: from [24.25.9.100] (HELO ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.5) with ESMTP id 556528 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sun, 05 Dec 2004 10:11:57 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=24.25.9.100; envelope-from=echristley@nc.rr.com Received: from nc.rr.com (cpe-024-211-191-066.nc.rr.com [24.211.191.66]) by ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id iB5FBOKj021549 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 10:11:24 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41B31B4D.6090805@nc.rr.com> Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 09:29:33 -0500 From: Ernest Christley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: gear drive for distributor and oil metering pump Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine The oil metering pump and the distributor (or crank angle sensor) both run off the same gear on the end of the eccentric shaft. Do both of them run at the same RPM as the engine, or does the larger gear work as a reduction drive? -- http://www.ernest.isa-geek.org/ "This is by far the hardest lesson about freedom. It goes against instinct, and morality, to just sit back and watch people make mistakes. We want to help them, which means control them and their decisions, but in doing so we actually hurt them (and ourselves)."