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Was Headed to Detroit Yesterday Morning....
.....when the little things ruin your day.
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Nope, it will await me Monday morning at 8am....or whenever!gbarrier wrote:Well that sucks. Any idea why?
Actually I have some ideas....but.....thats why I don't gamble.
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Mine dropped the right mag during run up the other day. Ran great on the left mag so I Flew it over to the mechanic who never really found a cause but "fixed" the problem while troubleshooting. Said it was ready for pickup. Get there and find it is running rough on both mags, not making full power and cold on #1 cylinder. Turns out they cleaned the injectors in addition to working on the mags... Needless to say, I still don't have an airplane to fly!
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Had it happen a few years ago after a cowling replacement.....I dont remember if CHT climbed but Oil Temp was high....turned out the lower cowl was built a little weak at the outlet and would collapse at higher airspeeds (noticed some minor cracks in the paint) thereby limiting air flow out of cowling. A reinforcing strip screwed to the bottom of the lip solved the problem.
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Mine had same indication only would drop when instrument light rheostadt turned down... Found a bad ground at oil temp gauge....
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Some of the reply's are entertaining at best. I departed Spence at 6:45 am and began a climb to the north to 3,000ft. The oil temp increased in a normal manner the whole time BUT continued past the normal operating temp. I level-offed at 3,000ft and the temp continued to increase. All other gauges had normal readings indicating that the temp may be abnormal. I elected to make a precautionary landing back at Spence. As I turned back South I made a power descent to which the temp remained just touching the red mark. As I pushed it back into the hanger it "cooled" down indicating halfway in the green. All other gauges reading normal. Using a heat source the old probe indicated 240 deg while the new probe indicated midway or so of the green. A quick test flight will tell us the truth!
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I once had a temp gauge go all the way to the top in a steep climb from takeoff. I had to clear a 12,000' ridge 20 miles from the airport (which was at 5,300'), so I was working it hard. Anyway, about five minutes into the climb, I looked over and saw ithe temp gauge pegged. I pulled the power back to idle and turned around to glide back down to the airport, and saw that the gauge had dropped to near the bottom Playing with the power showed that the temp indication increased immediately with RPM just as if it was a tach (or a pressure gauge; see where this is going)? On the ground, I pulled the temp sensor (bulb-type) out of the oil screen housing, and found that the bulb had broken off the capillary tube. This left the capillary tube open to oil pressure, which would make the temp gauge act as a pressure gauge. Turned out to be a relatively cheap fix, compared to what I feared it could have been at first.
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