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Offline ManfrerdSt

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T6 engine
« on: 10 May 2017 at 07:56 »
More questions!

Can someone give me a good copy from the page in the Manual 1930 T6 "Diagram of the oiling system, Arrows showing passage of oil"? My copy is very bad.

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Re: T6 engine
« Reply #1 on: 10 May 2017 at 08:13 »
Hi Manfred

That screw should have a little rod in it that goes up with oil pressure. There must be a picture on this site of an S6 or T6 that shows this.

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Re: T6 engine
« Reply #2 on: 10 May 2017 at 08:28 »
The rod can be seen to the left of the ignition drive

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Re: T6 engine
« Reply #3 on: 10 May 2017 at 08:28 »
The rod that Graeme refers to is the one on the top at the rear which indicates oil pressure and looks like you have in place. Oil flows from the pump past a piston on the end of the rod, forcing it upwards.
The bolt that you have indicated is a mystery to me. Someone told me it was a relic of the previous years model, possibly for a valve lifter. Mine is blanked off like yours Manfred. 

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Re: T6 engine
« Reply #4 on: 10 May 2017 at 08:33 »
Sorry Graeme,
                       The plug with the oil indicator is the one to the left of the mag pinion (you can see the rod going into the top of the vertical oil gallery). The blanking plug fills the hole for the cable of the optional exhaust lifter fitted to some of the early 750's.

Manfred,
             The oiling system on the S6/T6 is very simple - the oil pump pushes the oil up the vertical oil gallery, from where some is fed to the 2 cam spindles (via the brass 'Y' piece), the remainder is then fed to the timing side main bearing bush and into the crankshaft to lubricate the big ends. Any excess continues up the vertical gallery to lift the indicator rod and then flows out of a spill port in the side of the gallery (to return to the sump)(the weight of the indicator rod controls the oil pressure!). The rest of the engine is just 'splash' lubricated.

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               Eddie.
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Re: T6 engine
« Reply #5 on: 10 May 2017 at 12:36 »
Woops! I don't know what I was thinking, I know where the pressure rod is meant to be  :oops:

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Re: T6 engine
« Reply #6 on: 11 May 2017 at 05:52 »


A higher resolution image can be found here: Maximum resolution

-Doug

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Re: T6 engine
« Reply #7 on: 11 May 2017 at 06:02 »
Oh, and the mystery plug is I believe the point the Bowden cable enters for the exhaust valve lifter used on the 750cc engines (Mastiff). On the 600 and 500cc engines it was blanked-off and the exhaust valve lift mechanism not fitted.

-Doug

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Re: T6 engine
« Reply #8 on: 11 May 2017 at 07:11 »
Hello Doug

Thanks for the good copy!
The screw there was starting from 1929 I believe, the 750er only starting from 1932.
or am I wrong?

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Re: T6 engine
« Reply #9 on: 11 May 2017 at 15:54 »
Manfred,

Correct.

I think Douglas must have designed a provision for an exhaust valve lifter from the beginning in late 1929, but for whatever reason did not include one until the 1932 Mastiff model.

-Doug