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Yes I have no doubt that an X or O ring chain will work perfectly ........especially at the rediculously high chain speeds of your primary system which can be well up to 6,000 ft per min. I am of course joking and wonder what the chain manufacturer would advise IF ASKED. The CORRECT oil for primary chain use given to me by Phil Heath who was part of the original Norton oil bath chain case design team in the 1930s was to use a straight engine oil of SAE 10 or 20 and to fill till oil is JUST touching the lower run of the chain which will create an oil mist in service......or as Mr Heath commented to me..... 'It will stop your problems oi clutch slip and drag but It does very little for chain life'. If you overfill the chain case oil will quickly enter the designed to be run DRY clutch and result in slip and drag problems. Of course the CORRECT lubrication system would be an oil bath chain case with a sump and in it a pump to feed oil on to the inner edge of the side plates so that some oil is forced by centifugal force betwen the side plates and some reaches the plain bearings to lubricate and cool the chain. Incidentally the design life of a Renold chain is given in the industrial design manuals as a minimum of 15,000 hours which at 40 mph = 600,000 miles use.... which is a good indication of how incorrectly we employ chain!! We swop life for incorrect useage. IGNOR the oil level plug!! The3 idiots even got the height of it wrong on Commandos!!!
Yes I have no doubt that an X or O ring chain will work perfectly ........especially at the rediculously high chain speeds of your primary system which can be well up to 6,000 ft per min. I am of course joking and wonder what the chain manufacturer would advise IF ASKED.
The CORRECT oil for primary chain use given to me by Phil Heath who was part of the original Norton oil bath chain case design team in the 1930s was to use a straight engine oil of SAE 10 or 20 and to fill till oil is JUST touching the lower run of the chain which will create an oil mist in service......or as Mr Heath commented to me..... 'It will stop your problems oi clutch slip and drag but It does very little for chain life'. If you overfill the chain case oil will quickly enter the designed to be run DRY clutch and result in slip and drag problems. Of course the CORRECT lubrication system would be an oil bath chain case with a sump and in it a pump to feed oil on to the inner edge of the side plates so that some oil is forced by centifugal force betwen the side plates and some reaches the plain bearings to lubricate and cool the chain. Incidentally the design life of a Renold chain is given in the industrial design manuals as a minimum of 15,000 hours which at 40 mph = 600,000 miles use.... which is a good indication of how incorrectly we employ chain!! We swop life for incorrect useage.
IGNOR the oil level plug!! The3 idiots even got the height of it wrong on Commandos!!!
