Thread: Some ppl...check this out

Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

He's very lucky he has a Horizontally opposed engine.

why did that make a difference?

Originally Posted by Eevo

why did that make a difference?

With the pistons going from side to side in the oil, the oil just sloshes around because free surface effect allows it to but if a piston slams down into the oil and encapsulates it , then hydraulic effect effect comes into play for an instant. The piston's travel will be momentarily halted but the Crank will keep turning. The Connecting Rod will stretch a little to compensate. Eventually the connrod will force the piston into the head and the Engine will be Poo Poo shortly after that.

Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

Ok I'll go but JDNSW will get every second one first go, you watch.

He needs the challenge. He's been a little smug recently.

Besides, I have nothing.. Let him.

Originally Posted by Eevo

why did that make a difference?

You need to remember the original premise: This applies to an overfilled engine...

Billy may not have mentioned it...

Originally Posted by johntins

Yep. Not only Austins. MGs too. Same B series, but no gearbox in crankcase. So, MGs often ran with too low an oil level. BMC, and BL that followed, had serious issues....

Cuppa, I never worked on the Commer, I just dragged it up out of some dim recess. I saw a couple, and was sort of stunned. I mean, what were they thinking? It was an engineering marvel, though, and one well worth remembering through these threads.

The Commer knocker took advantage of the fact that after the war German patents were free. The basic design was, if I remember rightly, introduced during WW1 by Junkers for submarine engines.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

The Commer knocker took advantage of the fact that after the war German patents were free. The basic design was, if I remember rightly, introduced during WW1 by Junkers for submarine engines.

Must've been noisy old subs!

Originally Posted by JDNSW

The Commer knocker took advantage of the fact that after the war German patents were free. The basic design was, if I remember rightly, introduced during WW1 by Junkers for submarine engines.

The TS3 shared design similarities with the ZG9, that was a pre-war design.

Um, which war? - I should have said the "Great War". I think the key Junkers patents were about 1913.

And yes, Inc, they would have been noisy, but nobody worried about noise in subs then. A similar design was used (again by Junkers) in the most successful diesel aeroplane engine to date, used in mainly long range aircraft in the 1930s and early 1940s.