What was found
CRACK FOUND IN OIL FILTER ASSY CAUSING OIL LEAK ON NEWLY OVERHAULED ENGINE WITH ONLY 42.3 HOURS.
- Difficulty date
- August 5, 2003
- Submitted
- August 8, 2003
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N666EB
- Make and model
- Piper PA32300
- Aircraft serial
- 327940115
- Engine
- Lyc IO540K1G5
- Engine time
- 42 hours
- Propeller
- Hartzl HCC2YK1
- System (JASC)
- 8550 · Reciprocating Engine Oil System
- Part
- Oil Filter
- Part number
- 77852
- Part serial
- NA
- Condition
- Cracked
- Location
- Engine
- Part time
- 42 hours
- Stage of operation
- NR
- How discovered
- 9
- Nature of condition
- O
- Precautionary procedure
- O
As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.