Oil Gallery Tube

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

Whilst cleaning the mains oil gallery noticed both ends of the tube insert  were slightly scuffed / damaged.

Not sure what has caused it unless it was made like that - seems unlikely would not have thought the end cap would reach that far.



.scuffed bit here by Macabe Thiele, on Flickr

[Bryanj]

Probably happened during machining, as long as no loose bits it will be fine

[Laverda Dave]

Ted, is the crackcase cracked to the r/h side of your hand or is it just a gouge mark?

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

Ted, is the crackcase cracked to the r/h side of your hand or is it just a gouge mark?

Just a photo mark caused by the shadow of a raised casting ridge, no cracks only a few casting marks here & there.

Probably due to low lighting it appears as a dark crack wider in the miiddle this is caused by the raised surface being uneven causing a shadow - I have double checked there isn't even a mark as such just the raised section on the casing it actually is more like a ridge.

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

Probably happened during machining, as long as no loose bits it will be fine

I've removed the potentially loose bits and the debris I made in the process. I used to have a selection (3) of bearing scrapers from back in the day when you hand finished white metal bearings probably on the likes of an Austin 7 - they were my late fathers from when he worked for  RR /Bentley at Crewe in the 1940's. They had rusted a little over the decades so about 20 years ago I threw them away - would have been an ideal tool. Last used by me to free off a set of camshaft bearings in an A series engine circa 1967.

Oh the things I gave away or threw away over the decades that I could use now - of course that was safe in the knowledge that I would never need them again - how wrong I was - I understand Hoarders now. lol