摘要 |
A high pressure pump, comprising a lubrication and cooling circuit for driveshaft bearings (140-142), wherein low temperature, filtered fuel from the fuel tank (150) is supplied to a chamber (158) at the rear of the driveshaft (106), wherein the chamber (158) communicates directly with the rear bearing clearances, and with the front bearing clearances and cambox (108) via axial (134) and radial (136,138) driveshaft drillings, wherein the system is sealed at backleak pressure, and optionally a channel (160,172) is provided directly from the chamber to the cambox volume thereby to cool a tappet/cam rider interface. |