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In-Flight Engine Failure
Well, it happended. I have owned the plane (Piper Turbo Arrow III) for
3 months and the engine failed during climb out on Tuesday. Altitude was 4400 feet. Luckily, the engine did not entirely quit and I made it to an airport within 10 miles. TBO was 1000 hours away. Dissapointing! When we cut the oil filter, it was full of fairly large aluminum and steel bits of metal. Arg! (1) Upon examination, the wire into the left magneto was found to be broken off, just at its connection to the magneto. A mechanic theorized that it could have grounded to the magento housing. He said that that could have actually caused a grounding of both magnetos and could have fouled up the engine firing, and could have contributed to the failure. Later, he said that he thought that it was just a coincidence that the left mag wire happened to have been broken when the engine failed due to some other reason. What do you folks think? Could the two have been tied togehter? (2) Now I am faced with having to have the engine overhauled. Growl! The engine has brand new cylinders on it (well, they have about 100 hours on them) put on by the previous owner. So, I think we want to do a custom overall of this particular engine. Does that make sense? Are there different places who do this sort of thing with different reputations for quality of work? If so, I would like to hear about recommendations (the engine is a TCM TSIO-360-FB) or perhaps criteria to use in making a judgement. Also, are there different quality parts or methods in doing the overhaul that are options that I need to specify when I ask for the overhaul. In other words, if I can pay 10% more and get more reliability, then I might like to have the option to do that...but often, you have to be knowledgeable enough to ask for the right things. |
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