New modified oil slinger
Guess if you want to use one, this one will not get gouged out by a double chain. That seems to be a common problem. It would be just as easy to make one without blades that still has enough offset to clear the chain, and tensioner if you use one. Lots of opinions here, but wanted to share an idea. I like engineering, design and problem solving. The original one was put on there for a reason. Just like the drip tab and the bolt with the hole in it. I just didn't want to eliminate it, so I modified it to hopefully make it better.
Your engineering was awesome. Your design is incredible. The part looks like it should have been designed. But there is another thing to consider.
Just like the useless drip tab, and the goofy bolt with the hole in it that did nothing, Chrysler was looking for ways to reduce warranty at the least cost possible. That meant if they could stamp out a “slinger” for 2 cents and throw it on there and send it and it MAY reduce warranty that keeps the bean counting idiots who know nothing about anything except money (and it’s questionable what they know about that) then it was used.
Bow tie wearing bean counters have done more to destroy automobile manufacturing that almost rivals government interference.
Screw that bolt with a hole in it into any hole in the block and look at it. Real close. In 3 holes it can do nothing. In one hole when the lifter valley floods with oil it might dribble some oil through it. But that would depend on many thing, one being the pressure differential in the timing cover compared to the lifter valley. It just doesn’t do anything.
Same with the drip tab. Anything it does would be by happenstance.
I have a buddy who bought a very expensive gear drive for his SBC. I think today it’s over a grand for one just like it. Anyway, he bolted it on and off we went. It went out and in a few street miles and maybe 20 passes at the track and blued all the gears and took out the idler gear bearing.
He called the manufacturer and they said drill a hole in the gallery plug to get oil into the cover. They actually replaced the gears and bearing for free, but said they wouldn’t do it again if he didn’t get oil to it.
That gear drive is still being used by his kid today. I can’t even think how many street miles and passes it has on it, but it’s a lot.
The moral of the story is that the factory does things just because it makes them or the bean counters feel better. A logical look at some of the stuff shows the folly of most of it.
