mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You are right about the mini (all of them) having a particularly stupid >method of lubrication. This was continued on all FWD BMC cars. What it >meant was that neither the gearbox or the engine were lubricated correctly >(or, rather, were supplied with the correct type of lubricant in the case >of the gearbox) and, if anything went wrong, both of them got knackered. >It was purely a procution engineering decision - cheaper to make it like >that. Yet they ran for considerable mileages in some cases. And > money was still lost on most of them.....
Interesting. Of course, almost all motorcycle engines are built this way, with the engine oil serving as gearbox lubricant. In fact, in bikes, the same oil lubricates the wet clutch. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
