krepus wrote:
Ouch...
Yeah. For what it's all going to be worth there could be a V8 in my miata. I always start second guessing this adventure - until I hear the bike motor run again - and then I remember why I'm doing it.
I spent the morning setting up the oiling for the bearings in the housing. I stole oil from an oil pipe that used to lubricate the bike's transmission. Luckily, the tubing was 3/16" OD and an appropriate ID which is AN3 size. So I bought a bunch of tubing and fittings and rigged something up.
On the engine, just below the oil pump drive gear, you can see a short tube with a female AN fitting. The plan is to use the flexible brake line to extend into the crankcase, make a loop, and then come back out with the opposite end aiming at the housing.
Since the transmission is gone, there is nothing in the crankcase which is what allows the service loop. The plan will be to hook up the oil line to the housing before slipping it onto the pins. The flexible line gives me . . . flexibility . . . in that whole procedure.
Here's the end in the housing that mates up to the engine.
The hard line runs under the gear and the loops up to shoot oil into the outer bearing. There are two bearings in there though and I'm counting on some sloshing to get oil on the inner one.
Finally, here we are mating the housing up to the engine.
That's the last bit of fitting for the adapter I had to do. Next step is to get the engine running again this time mated up to the miata trans! First though, I'm going on vacation for a week and a half, then, the timing belt broke on the miata
- so that needs fixing. Luckily it's a non-interference engine. Seven progress is going to be slow for a little bit.