Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 19:16:39 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from smtp.comcast.net ([24.153.64.2] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.5) with ESMTP id 2008232 for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 03 Feb 2003 19:06:11 -0500 Received: from cc1860069a (pcp01159608pcs.rocsth01.mi.comcast.net [68.62.26.152]) by mtaout06.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.09 (built Jan 7 2003)) with SMTP id <0H9R00M3DC8SB9@mtaout06.icomcast.net> for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 03 Feb 2003 19:05:16 -0500 (EST) X-Original-Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 19:04:43 -0500 From: edechazal@comcast.net Subject: Hydraulics X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List X-Original-Message-id: <030701c2cbe1$0563c560$981a3e44@rocsth01.mi.comcast.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal References: Ian Crowe, Fear not friend, about your hydraulic pressure equalizing when you open the cross over valve. Mine does this all the time when the gear is down, pressurized, and I open the valve. Usually if you turn on the pump, it will bleed pressure back down on the unpressurized side. When the gear is up, it will free fall when you open the crossover valve, regardless of whether it is dumping to the reservoir or not. You'll see when you test it. Frankly, I've given up trying to figure out when the pump allows fluid to dump to the reservoir and when it does not. There is only one time when you need the wrench to bleed pressure: that's when you take off and the gear refuses to go up. This has been described a few times before. Your best plan is to tighten up your system so that internal leaks are gone. Ed de Chazal N361DC