Service difficulty report · Control Unit · Boeing 757222

Difficulty date
December 23, 2011
Submitted
January 26, 2012
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N552UA
Make and model
Boeing 757222
Aircraft serial
26641
Aircraft time
76,184 hours, 21,974 cycles
Engine
Pwa PW2037
Part
Control Unit
Part number
332152010
Part serial
163
Condition
Faulty
Location
Rudder
Stage of operation
CR
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

AC YAW AT HIGH SPEED. REPLACE RUDDER AND MONITOR PRINTED CIRCUIT UNIT CARD ASSY DUE TO BOTTOM RUDDER PCA FAILING TEST. RPLC'D CARD ASSY PER MM & TESTED SYSTEM. OPERATES PROPERLY. IN ADDITION, LOWER RUDDER PCU IS STILL NOT PASSING. CARD WAS CHANGED AS A PRECAUTION AND CARD SYSTEM OPERATES PROPERLY. SEE SMC30 FOR REPLACEMENT OF PCU. PERFORMED PCA PRESS. DIFF. SEN S. ISOL. TEST ITEM 'O' OF MM. TEST INDICATED FAULTY RUDDER PCA (BOTTOM), COMPLETE TEST FROM STEP 25 AFTER RUDDER PCA RPL. RMV'D LWR PCA FOUND ROD END ATTACH BOLT & BUSHING DAMAGED, HARDWARE ORDERED FROM JJ RMV'D PER MM. COMPLETED INSTALLATION OF BOTTOM RUDDER PCA AND COMPLETED THE PCA PRESS DIFF SENS ISOL. TEST OF MM "O" OPS CHECKS GOOD.