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Royal Enfield Motorcycles => Bullet with the UCE engine => Topic started by: kaarigar on December 06, 2009, 02:40:58 am

Title: Gearbox lubrication video
Post by: kaarigar on December 06, 2009, 02:40:58 am

I saw this video on you tube about the UCE gearbox lubrication:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V_rP88YEP0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V_rP88YEP0)

It is interesting, can anyone explain how this video was recorded?

Kaarigar
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Title: Re: Gearbox lubrication video
Post by: Ice on December 06, 2009, 03:09:07 am

To my eye it looks like part of the gear box was machined away and a piece of lexan was glued in place.

Title: Re: Gearbox lubrication video
Post by: Scott Gilmore on December 06, 2009, 03:45:58 pm

Read all about it right here in the Buzz Blog (http://www.enfieldmotorcycles.com/blog/2009/09/tech-corner-uce-lubrication/).

Regards,
Scott Gilmore

Title: Re: Gearbox lubrication video
Post by: Chasfield on December 06, 2009, 06:41:30 pm

I read something about a similar procedure in a British bike history book somewhere. Many years back engineers were trying to rectify oil starvation issues on a vertical twin of some sort. They installed Plexiglas windows into the crank cases so that they could directly observe oiling at high engine speeds, and thereby derive a solution to the problem.

Title: Re: Gearbox lubrication video
Post by: kaarigar on December 06, 2009, 09:29:40 pm

Quote from: Ice on December 06, 2009, 03:09:07 am

To my eye it looks like part of the gear box was machined away and a piece of lexan was glued in place.

Indeed, also as others pointed out.

Regards,

Kaarigar
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