[AT] Oil Filter question

[charlie hill]

Yep I think that is about the way it is plumbed Ralph.  The oil pump is on 
the rear of the cam shaft and the oil  is pumped through the hollow cam 
shaft.  It looks like the T is right about where the center camshaft bushing 
is located.

Charlie
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From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
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>  I just looked the D-14 over and there
>> is a 1/8"  tee in the side of the block about mid way.  It feeds two 
>> lines. One goes to the head and the other two the governor.   The manual 
>> does say that there is a presure relief valve on the front end of the cam 
>> shaft.
>
> A 1/8 tee sounds familiar to me. Thats a similar setup on the Buda engines 
> in my Cockshutt tractors. If you look into that tee it has a very small 
> hole in it and I've been told that it is also important in maintaining oil 
> pressure. Just working from memory I believe the oil flows from the 
> camshaft bearing area through an external line to the tee and from there 
> is diverted to the rocker arms and the pressure gauge.
> One thing I found out last winter was that if this tee becomes blocked and 
> stops flowing to the rocker arms they will eventually get rather noisy. 
> Cleaning out the tee fitting restored the engine to its former silent 
> running and hopefully no permanent damage was done.
> Ralph in Sask.
> http://lgoff.sasktelwebsite.net/
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