This invention relates to an assembly of auxiliary equipment for a water-cooled internal combustion engine, having an oil pump, a water pump, an oil cooler, and an oil filter.
In water-cooled internal combustion engines of known construction, the oil pump, water pump, and an oil cooler/oil filter unit are placed at various locations in the engine, thereby necessitating complex and expensive connecting lines for oil and water which, depending on the locations of the individual pumps and the oil cooler/oil filter unit, are designed as bores in the crank housing or as external lines.
While it is common practice in diesel engines to mount the fuel-injection pump on an aluminum casting which also carries the oil pump, a filter, a safety valve, a fuel pump, and a vacuum pump, this does not eliminate the problem referenced above.