Service difficulty report · Pulley · Lear 36A

Difficulty date
September 22, 2011
Submitted
January 23, 2013
Operation
Air carrier
Make and model
Lear 36A
Aircraft time
20,287 hours
Engine
Garrtt TFE7312
Part
Pulley
Part number
232451318
Condition
Out Of Tolerance
Location
Ailerons
Part time
297 hours
Stage of operation
NR
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
F
Precautionary procedure
O

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

What was found

(CAN) DURING A MX WALK AROUND, FOUND A .7500" FREEPLAY IN THE RT AILERON. DURING INVESTIGATION, FOUND THAT THE RT AILERON PULLEY AND SHAFT WERE MOVING INDEPENDENTLY. ON DISASSEMBLY OF THE PULLEY AND SHAFT FOUND THAT THE PULLEY AND SHAFT WERE NOT A CLOSE TOLERANCE FIT OF .0005" BUT .025 OF FREEPLAY. THIS PULLEY WAS A REPLACEMENT ITEM ON 20,000 HRS TIME EXPIRED COMPONENTS. IT WAS NOT NOTICED BY THE INSTALLER BECAUSE THE PULLEY AND SHAFT WERE HELD TOGETHER BY PRIMER, AND AFTER APPROX 300 HRS OF OPERATION THE PRIMER LET GO. REMOVED THE LT PULLEY ASSY(-18) WHICH HAD NO SIGNS OF FREEPLAY YET. DISASSEMBLED IT AND FOUND IT TOO WAS WAY OUT OF SPEC AND WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE IT TOO WOULD HAVE AILERON FREEPLAY. DISSASSEMBLED NEW PART AND FOUND IT WAS ACTUALLY WORSE THAN THE ONE FROM THE ACFT. MFG IS INVESTIGATING THIS NOW AND IT SEEMS THAT THEIR ENTIRE STOCK IS OUT OF LIMITS.

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