CorvAircraft> lcrank case roulting

[Dave Morris "BigD"]

I think you've got it right.  If you Google "air oil separator" one 
of the sites that comes up is the (very expensive) M-20 separator 
which has quite a bit of good information about the whole separation 
process and the right way to hook one up.
  http://www.m-20turbos.com/separator_facts.htm

Regards,

Dave Morris

At 07:30 PM 6/30/2006, you wrote:
>Dave said,
>
>... The big tube comes out the top of the valve cover and goes into the top
>of the separator.  A smaller tube comes out the bottom of the separator and
>flows any excess oil back into a smaller tube welded into the side of the
>same valve cover. ...
>
>Dear Dave,
>
>         As I understand it, the "go-innus" is in the form of vaporized or
>atomized oil, and the "go-outus" is in the form of liquid oil, with the
>separator acting to condense the former into the latter. If so, then it
>seems to make sense to make the inlet tube bigger than the outlet tube, and
>in the same ratio as the respective specific volumes of the two.
>
>         Is that about right, or have I got it all wrong?
>
>Thanks,
>Don Lawrence
>
>
>
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