Al, Sounds like you are looking at
the brass "sleeve" bearing around the prop shaft. Should, of
course,have an opening for the oil. If this PSRU was run on the dyno it
sounds that like either:
Ed;
The run on the dyno
was without redrive. It has now run less than 10 minutes at low rpm, but
with no trace of oil in the drain line, clearly there never was any
flow. Fortunately, I caught the problem early. Presumably no
damage to the drive.
Al
With the low rpms
and minimum length runs, you are in all likelihood correct. Since its
still under warranty and it will have to be torn down to fix the problem - if
there is any damage, it should be easy enough to replace the gears
or whatever. That is one of the things I like about Tracy's redrive as
opposed to the Ross drive. You needed a machine shop to replace anything
associated with propeller shaft on the Ross.
Good luck, I will
be interested to hear what the cause of the plugged oil inlet hole
is.
Ed
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