The oil does splash up the cylinder walls in some engine designs, by the con rods scooping it out of the sump and throwing it off the rods as they rotate.
More modern engines use a small oil hole on the upper side of each con rod to squirt oil coming out of the con rod big end, under pressure from the oil pump, onto the cylinder wall. These engines dont dip their rods into the sump oil (it costs power). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "OZDAT Mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, 8 July 2002 0:07 AM Subject: stupid question > How does the oil get onto the cylinder so the piston is lubricated? > > No I'm serious... when I was little I was told that it "splashes up > there"... but now, decades later I'm wondering... how does it get up there? > > > From: Stupid > > > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
