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Old February 8th 04, 11:51 PM
O. Sami Saydjari
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Default Reverse Vacuum Damging to Instruments?

Recently, I had an A&P put the wrong vacuum pump into my Piper Turbo
Arrow 3 (the work was done about 3 weeks ago). When I started the
engine, the wrror was obvious because none of the vacuum instruments
functioned. The D.G. was spinning wildly. The A&P was there when I
started my engine and saw this. The engine was running for only about 2
minutes. We shut it down and he replaced the vacuum pump with one that
turned in the correct direction.

When I asked if running the vacuum backwards could have damaged any of
my instruments, he said that he did not know for sure, but that I should
bring it back if I had problems.

I have not noticed anything really significant...but then again, I have
only hhad the plane a few weeks...so I am not sure what the average
precession is on the D.G. Also, I do not know what subtle damage might
have been done that will reduce the life of my instruments in the long
term. Can someone please tell if they know for sure one way or another
if the event was potentially damaging to my instruments?

-Sami

 




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