Oil circulation time

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Re: Oil circulation time

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There are 16 teeth on the pump plunger and with a two start worm on the crankshaft, that's 8 revolutions of the engine for one 'cycle' of the oil pump. I haven't measured the feed pump displacement but it's tiny, probably less than 1cc / cycle. That's an awful lot of kicking!!
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