Service difficulty report · Valve · Cessna 172S

Difficulty date
February 14, 2001
Submitted
March 23, 2001
Operation
General aviation
Aircraft
N74GW
Make and model
Cessna 172S
Aircraft serial
172S8143
Engine
Lyc IO360L2A
Part
Valve
Part number
63B22623
Part serial
0175842
Condition
Inoperative
Location
Fuel Distributio
Part time
665 hours
Stage of operation
IN
How discovered
V
Nature of condition
O
Precautionary procedure
K

As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.

What was found

SERVO WAS CLEANED AND RECERTIFIED, WHICH PARTIALLY IMPROVED ENGINE PERFORMANCE. ENGINE STILL BACKFIRED AT 1300-1500 RPM. CLEANED INJECTORS, WITH NO CHANGE. REMOVED AND INSPECTED FUEL DISTRIBUTION VALVE. FOUND SMALL AMOUNT OF LINT PARTIALLY BLOCKING PASSAGES AT NR3 CYLINDER PORT. CLEANED AND REASSEMBLED VALVE. RUNUP AND OPS CHECKS NORMAL.

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