On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:15 PM, John Slade
<jslade@canardaviation.com>
wrote:
Here's
a few for the list, Mark,
1. Stock turbo bearings collapsed & took
out apex seal. Flew home at reduced power.
I have burned out 2 turbos. The first caused precautionary/urgent
landing at an airport pending shutting off fuel flow to the turbo. The
second, I flipped a turbo oil shut off switch and flew 1000NM to get
home.
2. Fuel filer (sinstered bronze) looked clean but was
restricting fuel flow. Flew home on other tank.
Had a fuel pump die in flight, switched to the other and kept
flying.
3. Bad / intermittent contact on ignition timing sensor
made engine run rough. Landed normally and repaired.
I had a bad injector enable switch causing rough running during some
phase one flying (after major change)... landed normally
4. Turbo hose blew off on take-off. Returned to land at
reduced power.
John
Been there, done that.
Also:
Forgot to re-connect fuel return line in engine bay after doing some
work. dumped a couple gallons of fuel onto the running engine until I
smelled gas and shut down the engine.. (never left the parking space - but it
could have been really bad.
Cracked alternator mount bracket found on pre-flight during phase one
testing. Would have lost cooling and alternator if it happened
now.
PSRU sun gear pin broke from a backfire during run-up. Was able to
taxi back but would not have been able to fly.
This is good - broke a coolant line in flight and
smelled coolant... landed at nearby airport and taxied up to restaurant
with steam spewing out of the cowl. Me and my buddy calmly walked into
the restaurant and had breakfast. Afterward, we borrowed some tools and
fixed the coolant line. Went back into the restaurant to ask for 2
pitchers of water to put in our plane. Continued ski trip to
Mammoth. The end.