# SDR 2015FA0000210

- Type: Service difficulty report (as reported; unverified)
- Difficulty date: May 8, 2015
- Submitted: May 13, 2015
- Operation: General aviation
- Aircraft: [N380PD](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N380PD), registered now
- Make and model: Bell OH-58A
- Registry model: [Bell OH-58A](https://openairdocs.org/model/bell-oh-58a) (OpenAirDocs)
- Aircraft serial: 7321879
- System (JASC): [6220 · Main Rotor Head](https://openairdocs.org/jasc/6220)
- Part: Strap
- Part number: AA206011154105
- Part serial: BA10923
- Condition: Damaged
- Location: Main Rotor
- Part time: 6,656 hours
- Stage of operation: NR
- How discovered: 9
- Nature of condition: O
- Precautionary procedure: O
- FAA source: FAA Service Difficulty Reporting System (https://sdrs.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/sdr/2015FA0000210

## Discrepancy

AN 1:1 VIBRATION WAS REPORTED BY PILOT AS AN ONGOING ISSUE.  IN AN ATTEMPT TO ELIMINATE OTHER SYSTEMS SUCH AS SWASH PLATE, FLIGHT CONTROLS AND GEARBOXES, A COMPLETE INSPECTION WAS CONDUCTED BY DISCONNECTING ALL FLIGHT CONTROLS AND ISOLATING EACH SYSTEM INDIVIDUALLY.  SEVERAL BEARINGS WERE IDENTIFIED AS HAVING SLIGHT PLAY AND REPLACED REGARDLESS OF PLAY LIMITS.  SWASH PLATE ASSY WAS INSPECTED OK AND HAD RECENTLY BEEN O/H. MAIN ROTOR HEAD ASSY WAS REMOVED, DISASSEMBLED, AND VISUAL INSPECTION DID NOT REVEAL ANDY DEFECTS.  TO INCLUDE THE TT STRAPS.  ROTOR HEAD WAS REASSEMBLED, ALIGNED, INSTALLED AND ANOTHER OPS FLIGHT/ROTOR SMOOTHING ATTEMPT WAS MADE.  AS NOTED IN THE PREVIOUS ATTEMPS, THE ACFT WOULD MEET THE .02 IPS VIBRATION LIMITS EXCEPT WITH A REDUCTION OF POWER.  EVERYTIME THE COLLECTIVE WAS LOWERED/REDUCTION OF POWER, THE ACFT WOULD EXPERIENCE A SEVERE TO EXCESSIVE 1:1 VERTICAL VIBRATION.  IN AN ATTEMPT TO ISOLATE THE PROBLEM, ANOTHER SERVICEABLE MAIN ROTOR HEAD AND BLADE ASSY WAS INSTALLED.  WITHIN 1 ADJUSTMENT FOLLOWING THE NEXT FLIGHT, THE ACFT MET ALL LIMIT REQUIREMENTS.  AT THIS POINT, THE PROBLEM WAS IN THE SUSPECT HUB AND BLADE ASSEMBLY.  PURCHASED TENSION/TORSION STRAPS AND INSTALLED THEM, COMPLETED THE ALIGNMENT AND COMPLETED THE MAIN ROTOR HUB AND BLADE.

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