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Increased loads and lower oil supply of today’s low-consumption internal combustion engines lead to higher demands on mechanical and elastohydro-dynamical design methods of the piston pin bearing. The bearing is not lubricated directly but through spray oil or oil mist. A description of the lubrication mechanism within the bearing has mostly been researched theoretically. In order to understand the friction conditions and lubrication mechanisms, the bearing is tested on an external test bench with high loads and a hydrostatic bearing of the piston. An enginelike lubrication can be variably adjusted. By comparing the contact pattern between measurement and calculation, conclusions can be drawn about the behaviour of the lubricant within the bearing. Using computational fluid dynamic calculations (CFD) the amount of oil in the gap of different lubrication directions is regarded. After transferring the results to the test bench a directed transport of lubricant is determined. Final friction measurements with an adapted direction of lubrication show a good accordance to the calculation results. These results validate a multi body system calculation (MBS/MKS) with a lubricating film coupling.