These look good. I am going to clean this engine up and put
it back together with the original seals and new teflon encapsulated
silicone O-rings. If I put new seals in it it, new rotor housings and
lap and re-nitride the end housing it might take me the rest of my life to
find out how long it will last :-) I am more into R&D then I am into
merely flying around in a rotary powered airplane.

BTW I suspect that routing the oil sump blow by back to the intake as

commonly

done in cars now is not good. Aircraft engines have the crankcase vented
over board. That blow by probably includes some acidic steam from

condensed

water vapor not to mention escaped combustion gases.

Paul Lamar

lonwood wrote:

That brings up the question of just how much blow by is there on a rotary,
and how is it being dealt with? Is there enough oil in it to justify a
seperator canister?
Lonnie

Good question Lonnie. I wonder what Tracy does.

BTW I was thinking about an oil sludge separator. I suppose the filter gets
it all out? Perhaps nobody ever changed the filter on this filthy engine of mine
and the bypass activated.

Paul Lamar
 
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