Service difficulty report · Cylinder Head · Piper PA28181

Difficulty date
October 21, 2015
Submitted
October 26, 2015
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N405S
Make and model
Piper PA28181
Aircraft serial
2890015
Aircraft time
9,333 hours
Engine
Lyc AEIO360*
Engine time
2,230 hours
Propeller
Snsnch 76EM8S5
Part
Cylinder Head
Condition
Cracked
Location
Engine
Part time
786 hours
Stage of operation
TO
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
R
Precautionary procedure
A

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

What was found

OUR ACFT DEPARTED WITH ONLY THE PILOT ON BOARD. THE ENG LOST PARTIAL POWER SO HE RETURNED. UPON INVESTIGATION CYLINDER 2 HAD NO COMPRESSION & WAS CRACKED HALF WAY AROUND THE CYLINDER HEAD. CYLINDER 4 WAS FOUND TO HAVE SOMEWHAT NORMAL COMPRESSION BUT DID INDICATE A LEAK & SMALL CYLINDER HEAD CRACK ALSO. IAW MFG TECH SERVICES, REPLACED ALL FOUR CYLINDERS WITH NEW MFG KITS.

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