Service difficulty report · Cylinder · Doug DC6A

Difficulty date
September 18, 2004
Submitted
September 20, 2004
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N6174C
Make and model
Doug DC6A
Aircraft serial
44075
Aircraft time
50,871 hours
Engine
Pwa R2800CB3
Engine time
515 hours
Part
Cylinder
Part number
356993
Part serial
266607
Condition
Cracked
Location
Nr 4
Part time
515 hours
Stage of operation
CR
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
R, J
Precautionary procedure
E

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

What was found

NR 1 ENGINE SHUT DOWN DUE TO RUNNING ROUGH. REPLACED NR 1 ENGINE NR 4 CYLINDER DUE TO A CRACKED HEAD. CHECKED GOOD.

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