Service difficulty report · Wheel · Doug MD88

Difficulty date
June 29, 2005
Submitted
July 1, 2005
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N158PL
Make and model
Doug MD88
Aircraft serial
49761
Aircraft time
45,715 hours, 31,668 cycles
Part
Wheel
Part number
5930594547
Part serial
JUL981324
Condition
Damaged
Location
Mlg
Part time
11,799 hours, 7,187 cycles
Stage of operation
TX
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
E, J
Precautionary procedure
E, D

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

What was found

DURING TAXI A STRONG NOISE AND VIBRATION DETECTED AT MLG AREA. ENGINES SHUTDOWN. TROUBLESHOOTING DETERMINED THAT NOISE WAS PROMOTED BY HYDRAULIC PULSING OF ELECTRICAL PUMPS AND GCU. GCU PLACED IN APU POSITION AND PROBLEM WAS CORRECTED. DURING OVERNIGHT SERVICE, A REVISION PERFORMED TO BOTH MLG, DETECTING WHEEL CAP INCRUSTED IN WHEEL NR 2 OF LT MLG. WHEELS NUMBER 1 AND 2 REPLACED IAW MM 32-40-01. BRAKES CORRECT. REGARDING THE GCU, THE UVC, OIL LEVEL AND CHIP DETECTOR WERE CHECKED IAW MM 24-10-01 AND BEING CORRECT. GENERATION TEST PERFORMED IAW MM 24-2-00, ALL CORRECT.

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