Service difficulty report · Housing · Doug DC983

Difficulty date
February 11, 2005
Submitted
February 14, 2005
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N838AM
Make and model
Doug DC983
Aircraft serial
49397
Aircraft time
55,896 hours, 26,774 cycles
Part
Housing
Part number
AC7031H8K1
Part serial
636
Condition
Cracked
Location
Hyd Filter
Part time
55,892 hours, 26,892 cycles
Stage of operation
TX
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
K
Precautionary procedure
K

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

What was found

CAPTAIN REPORTED THAT QUANTITY AND PRESSURE WERE LOOSE ON LEFT HYDRAULIC SYSTEM. DURING ENGINE RUNNING, A LEAK WAS DETECTED IN THE HOUSING OF THE HYDRAULIC PUMP FILTER. THE MODE FILTER HYDRAULIC LEFT SIDE PUMP ENGINE DRIVE WAS REPLACED IAW MM 29-10-14, TESTED CORRECT. PER STRONG HYDRAULIC FLUID SMELL, LEFT AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM WAS DEFERRED IAW MEL 21-1. ADDITIONALLY AIR CONDITIONING WATER SEPARATOR WAS REPLACED IAW MM 21-20-02, TESTED CORRECT.

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