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samira.h(at)shaw.ca
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 Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:27 am Post subject: CJ gear woes |
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On my way back from the Oliver YAK Fly-In
I have enjoyed a little gear incident. Small
rubber parts (debris) from the check valves
on the fire wall have migrated into my rear
cockpit gear up-down valve and clogged it
completely.
I guess it might be a good idea to inspect and
clean the air lines from the check valves to the
gear and flap valves at every annual.
cheers
Elmar
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jrittenbach
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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 12:55 pm Post subject: CJ gear woes |
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Just another quick note about our CJ air system as long as we are on the subject. A lesson learned for me recently to be shared just in case it may help anyone of you I ride the wing with to avoid an unsettling event. I've had my CJ about 1.5 years. It's had a good annual of course but I personally have never opened the emergency air valves until recently. I was attempting to drain the emergency air in order to reroute the emergency air line exiting from the emergency air tank to avoid some new unassociated hardware I'm putting in. When I opened the emergency air valve, I found a loud rush of air coming from the left emergency air hose that connects to the left gear actuator and the front cockpit emergency air gauge didn't budge off 45 atm even when the hissing stopped. Not sure how much emergency air time and pressure I would have had in a real emergency with that large of a leak and the gauge would have been misleading of course. Now going through my check valves as I replace hoses and gauges, I find a check valve I replaced a year ago is already dreadfully, nay, completely incompetent as well. Long story short, I'll be checking the valves, gauges, hoses, lines and emergency air system and changing the desiccate much more regularly from now on.
Blue Skies
J. Rittenbach
From: Elmar & Manuela Hegenauer <samira.h(at)shaw.ca>
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On my way back from the Oliver YAK Fly-In
I have enjoyed a little gear incident. Small
rubber parts (debris) from the check valves
on the fire wall have migrated into my rear
cockpit gear up-down valve and clogged it
completely.
I guess it might be a good idea to inspect and
clean the air lines from the check valves to the
gear and flap valves at every www.matronics.com/Navigator?Yak-List" target=_blank>http://www.matronics.========================
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