"Bass, Jerry" wrote:

An engineer friend of mine saw my added bearing to the Ross drive. He

also

suggested moving the drain to allow for oil pooling.  I added an

additional

drain just below the bell housing oil seal to let oil flow that way. My

Ross

came with two oil outlets, and one inlet.  I moved the outlet to about

4:30

and 7:30 on the dial.  Looked a the gear set on Friday a week ago and
everything looked fine.

Jerry Bass

Jerry,
I don't have a Ross PSRU and I'm trying to follow the information,
 in your post :- what bearing did you add, and where were the outlets
before.
TIA
George (down under)

Jerry is off the list temporarily George. He used a needle bearing.
BTW I suspect there are several back to back needle bearings in Scott 
Speirer Ross 2.85:1 unit shown in this jpg. In theory two bearings back to 
back  would cut the RPM of each in half extending the life greatly.
I think Jerry was only using one.

Paul Lamar
 
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