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De: G-IANI <g-iani@ntlworld.com>
Objet: RE: Europa-List: 914 Oil leak
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> After 23 flying hours, G-IRON has delveloped and oil leak. After one
> hours flying about a teaspoonfull of oil appears to have come from the
> oil seal on the prop sfaft and then been thrown of the prop flange
> ontothe spinner backplate.
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> The aircraft was taken to Skydrive who replaced the oil front seal on
> the prop shaft and checked the shaft. The engine was ground run
> for 10
> minutes with no apparent oil loss. The next flight (again about 1
> hour)and the same oil leak occured.
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> The aircraft was again taken to Skydrive who replaced the gearbox
> case,oilseal, front bearing and prop shaft. The engine was ground
> run for 10
> minutes with no apparent oil loss. The next flight (again about 1
> hour)and the same oil leak occured again. At the moment Skydrive
> are unsure
> why this has happened as they have never had a similar problem on some
> 2000 , 91x series, engines.
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> Has anyone got any ideas?
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Is everything correct with the breather and blowby ?
Regards,
Gilles Thesee
http://contrails.free.fr
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