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Hokie360

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The cylinder walls and piston pins are lubricated by "flung" oil and thus


need the engine actually running to disperse the oil. So you would need something more involved than just running the oil pump to get all the surfaces lubricated. More involved = more cost = lower reliability.

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Posted: 03/21/2018 at 12:40PM



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