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Re: [Spridgets] Sintered Bronze Bushes (& spigot bushes)

To: Ron Soave <soavero@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Sintered Bronze Bushes (& spigot bushes)
From: Frank <spritenut@comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 21:17:54 -0400
Ron Soave wrote:
> --- On Sun, 5/17/09, Ed's Shop <shop@justbrits.com> wrote:
>   
>> indicating full saturation of the bronze matrix.
>> Author:  Barney Gaylord, MGAGURU
>>     
>
> I heard a theory that in a fully matrixed bronze bushing if you fully 
>saturate the matrix as suggested, you can actually do more harm than good if 
>you run the engine over 5000 RPM for any period of time. The temperature of 
>the surface film of oil will exceed 500F locally, which is above the coking 
>point of both SAE and MIL-L-7808 and MIL-L-23699 oils, and the oil will coke. 
>In the absence of a properly reactive surfactant, the resultant carbon deposit 
>wears the crank spigot exponentially.
>
>   
Damn engineers.

-- 
Frank Clarici
Toms River, NJ
My own Fleet of Sprites
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