TURBO200R4
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i opened this thread in response to steel and warps discussion on rocket wheelies causing lose of engine oil.
i started working on automatic transmissions in 1966 back in those days they had two pumps one of them being in the rear so that u could push start the vehicle. being that every auto trans has a pump i have worked on a lot of pumps since then so i would consider my self an expert.
for example an 89 ford when it is serviced by an untrained person they leave out the gasket on top of the filter. what happens is the car works perfect when going slow however when u give it some throttle the force of going forward causes the fluid to move to the rear of the trans causing the pump to suck air in to the pump and a second latter the car goes into a neutral condition. at this point the pump does not have pressure but there is still enough fluid on the bushings and thrust washers so no damage will occur.
my point being that just because u loose pressure for a couple of seconds there should be no damage.
i have studied the pumps in the rocket III. all the pumps i have dealt with are pumps that suck (in a good way) so having a tank higher than the pump is a good thing. it means that the pump is always primed and never starts dry. it sucks from a tank that is higher so easier to suck the oil.
as for the operation on the rocket the scavenger pump picks up oil from the back of the engine and pumps it in to the tank. if the rocket was standing straight up it would still pick up oil and return it to the tank.
the engine pump sucks oil from the center of the tank and because the tank is more than 1/2 full even if it was standing straight up it would still suck oil from the tank.
the only ways that it would starve for oil is maybe loose bolts on the pump, bad oil pressure relief valve or not there or something wrong that would exhaust the pressure. also if there was something wrong with the scavenging pump (loose bolts ect or system then the oil would not return to the tank so there would not be any oil it the tank for the engine pump to suck so it would be sucking air with 0 pressure and after a while a bad engine.
this is just my opinion and i welcome other opinions. because if they are real good opinions then i might change mine
i started working on automatic transmissions in 1966 back in those days they had two pumps one of them being in the rear so that u could push start the vehicle. being that every auto trans has a pump i have worked on a lot of pumps since then so i would consider my self an expert.
for example an 89 ford when it is serviced by an untrained person they leave out the gasket on top of the filter. what happens is the car works perfect when going slow however when u give it some throttle the force of going forward causes the fluid to move to the rear of the trans causing the pump to suck air in to the pump and a second latter the car goes into a neutral condition. at this point the pump does not have pressure but there is still enough fluid on the bushings and thrust washers so no damage will occur.
my point being that just because u loose pressure for a couple of seconds there should be no damage.
i have studied the pumps in the rocket III. all the pumps i have dealt with are pumps that suck (in a good way) so having a tank higher than the pump is a good thing. it means that the pump is always primed and never starts dry. it sucks from a tank that is higher so easier to suck the oil.
as for the operation on the rocket the scavenger pump picks up oil from the back of the engine and pumps it in to the tank. if the rocket was standing straight up it would still pick up oil and return it to the tank.
the engine pump sucks oil from the center of the tank and because the tank is more than 1/2 full even if it was standing straight up it would still suck oil from the tank.
the only ways that it would starve for oil is maybe loose bolts on the pump, bad oil pressure relief valve or not there or something wrong that would exhaust the pressure. also if there was something wrong with the scavenging pump (loose bolts ect or system then the oil would not return to the tank so there would not be any oil it the tank for the engine pump to suck so it would be sucking air with 0 pressure and after a while a bad engine.
this is just my opinion and i welcome other opinions. because if they are real good opinions then i might change mine