Engine rebuild

[David Stepney]

For what little weight my opinion has, I have kept the rear crank oil retention arrangements on my own engine to the way that Austin's did it, with just the oil thrower. Having just overhauled the engine with new pistons and paid scrupulous attention to making sure that the gaskets have been fitted using a good proprietary silicon sealer, the engine now uses virtually no oil and the clutch pit has remained (comparatively) dry.

I suspect that, for touring engines, the original arrangements work just fine. Tuned competition engines are probably another matter altogether.