Service difficulty report · Cylinder · Doug DC6B

Difficulty date
January 20, 2001
Submitted
January 22, 2001
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N867TA
Make and model
Doug DC6B
Aircraft serial
45202
Aircraft time
70,038 hours
Engine
Pwa R2800CB3
Engine time
576 hours
Part
Cylinder
Part number
356994
Part serial
A780XDWV
Condition
Cracked
Location
Nr 4 Engine
Part time
576 hours
Component
Engine · Pwa
Stage of operation
TX
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
R
Precautionary procedure
E, D

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

What was found

DUE TO NR 4 ENGINE ROUGH RUNNING, LOW POWER AT RUNUP, AIR LEAK NOISE. REPLACED NR 1 CYLINDER DUE TO CRACKED HEAD.

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