Gilles may be right on the money, here. If the breather is restricted,
oil will pass by the seals, new or not. That would be my first place to
look...
Jeff - Baby Blue
200 hours and just finished mod 71 and first annual...
Gilles.Thesee@ac-grenoble.fr wrote:
> ----- Message d'origine ----- De: G-IANI <g-iani@ntlworld.com> Date:
> Lundi, Juillet 31, 2006 12:38 pm Objet: RE: Europa-List: 914 Oil leak
>
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Has anyone got any ideas?
> >
> >
>
> Is everything correct with the breather and blowby ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Gilles Thesee
>
> http://contrails.free.fr
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