Service difficulty report · Sensor · Boeing 737890

Difficulty date
February 22, 2014
Submitted
February 24, 2014
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N579AS
Make and model
Boeing 737890
Aircraft serial
35187
Aircraft time
26,853 hours, 7,981 cycles
Part
Sensor
Part number
MS280341
Condition
Backed Out
Location
Apu Inlet
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

ENGINEERING REQUESTS APU TROUBLESHOOTING FOR CT5ATP TEMPERATURE ABOVE THRESHOLD. ACFT GROUNDED. INITIAL APU BITE SHOWS NO ACTIVE FAULTS, NO RECORDED FAULT HISTORY, AND NO MAINTENANCE HISTORY. ON STEP D-4, FOUND LIGHT CORROSION ON CONNECTOR P21, AND ALSO FOUND THE INLET TEMP SENSOR BACKED OUT AND HOLDING ON BY ONLY A FEW THREADS. CLEANED CORROSION ON THE P21 CONNECTOR AND REINSTALLED ON SENSOR, AND IAW THE TSR, REPLACED THE INLET TEMP SENSOR, AS WELL AS THE INLET PRESSURE SENSOR, AND THE TOTAL PRESSURE SENSOR. RAN APU AND MONITORED WITH NO FAULT INDICATIONS, RE-RAN APU BITE WITH NO DISCREPANCIES NOTED. ALL OPS NORMAL.