Fred Vandeman wrote:

As many/most of you with aircraft instillations......I will

be supplying

oil to the apex seals by putting 2cycle into the fuel.

I'm finishing

my 20B overhaul and will be closing the front cover

tomorrow.  Should

I remove the drive gear and shaft........or leave it in?

If it were me I would take it out. No telling what it would
do with no load.

Paul Lamar

The roll pin (red arrow in pix) squirts oil onto the oil pump chain. I
was not sure if it would get enough lube without it so I left mine in. I
took the gear off though, so the shaft no longer rotates. If you remove
the shaft, oil will just run out the end of the bore.

Chuck Dunlap

Good point Chuck. Sorry I missed that. 

Paul Lamar

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