Cruze

Lubrication Description

The system includes an aluminum oil pan and an oil suction pipe. The oil suction pipe is bolted into the engine block and seals to the bottom of the block without a gasket.

The oil pump is mounted to the front of the engine block and pulls oil from the oil suction pipe through the lower passage in the engine block. The oil pump then directs the flow of pressurized oil back through the upper passage in the block to the left side of the engine block where the oil filter adapter and engine oil cooler are mounted.

The oil filter adapter and the engine oil cooler are is mounted with a gasket to the right side of the engine block. The oil filter adapter incorporates a bottom-access, spin-on oil. Oil flows through the lower passage in the oil filter adapter to and through the oil filter. Filtered oil travels back through the upper passage of the oil filter adapter and back into the engine block.

Oil is directed up and across the engine block front through several drilled passages that feed oil to the cylinder head, oil to the passage for the main bearings and piston oil nozzles.

Each cylinder head passage directs oil into the cylinder head where it is directed to oiling circuits for the stationary hydraulic lifter assemblies (SHLAs) and the camshaft bearing journals.

The oil passage that supplies oil to the main bearings also supplies oil to the piston-cooling oil nozzles. Each oil nozzles is mounted between opposing cylinder bores and directs oil to the bores to provide extra cooling and control piston temperatures.

Oil returns to the oil pan the cast oil drain back passages on the outboard walls of the cylinder heads and engine block.