5/3/2020 Royal Enfield - Re: Scavenge circuit oil pressure relief valve deletion

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Re: Scavenge circuit oil pressure relief valve deletion

Posted by Pete Snidal on May 26, 2011; 11:07pm
URL: http://royal-enfield.10950.n7.nabble.com/Scavenge-circuit-oil-pressure-relief-valve-deletion-tp12244p12255.html

>My '65 bullet has, at the front of the block just under where the
>oil line comes out to supply the head, a bolt, with the head facing
>the front of the bike.
>
>It is an oil pressure relief valve - on later bullets it was
>deleted, saving a drilling operation from the front of the engine
>into the timing case, a tapping operation, and the bolt and relief valve.
>
>I would like to eliminate it to increase the amount of oil that
>flows to the head, and to lessen the tendency my bike has on startup
>with cold oil, of flooding the timing case with bypassed oil - some
>of which is squeezed out of the timing case cover seal. Messy!

The amount of oil bypassed - to the Oil Reservoir, not to the timing
chest! - is determined by the balance between the pressure from the
scavenge pump and the tension of the regulator spring. Stretching
the spring, or replacing by a stronger one (spring rate = the ratio
of deflection to force) will vary the bypass ratio from all to
none. I'd think your problem, if any, would best be solved simply
by tuning your regulator spring rate. But I don't think any of this
would make any difference to the oil finding its way into the timing
chest. Your bypass feeds directly to the oil reservoir.
In fact, you can check the return rate by looking inside the filler
cap with engine running. The return port is just inside the filler
neck at the front. That was the way we checked for oil circulation
on the Redditch Enfields. (As with most brit bikes of the time -
they all bypassed return oil to the filler neck.)

So I don't think I'd go fixing things that work. We went through

this lack of OPR valve in the later Bullets on this list a few years
ago. Couldn't figure out how they did without it until Nandan
suggested the pump disks must just unseat against their springs to
perform the same function. That, in fact, is the only thing that
would save yours if you plugged the bypass line.

Summary: if you have a problem with excess oil in the timing cover,
it's something else. Timing cover oil gets in there down the pushrod
passages, and is returned to the oil tank by being passed up the gear
train and through a hole between two top gears from timing chest to tank.

Maybe your tank's too full?

ps www.enfield.20m.com

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