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Subject:  Potential Problem-Engine Vibration
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In the first 40 hours I had vibration so severe it caused stick shake.  This
has continued intermittently more or less for almost 400 hours.

First I found and fixed several Cowl Interference locations, then adjusted
and notched the hat section of the nose gear door.

At about 50 hours I paid Barrett to tear down the engine to replace the
Performance pistons (prematurely worn top rings) with stock ECI pistons.
Also found a cracked case.

We had the Kelly Alternator balanced and rebuilt at a shop recommended by
Bill Bainbridge of B & C.  Sorry I can't remember the name, the Legacy file
is in Texas. 

I rounded the leading edges of the elevator counter weights when building so
I temporarily squared them off to go back to the stock shape for testing.

All gear doors were checked in flight with video camera. 

The pitch trim hinge pin had play, I replaced it per Chris Zavatson's web
page.

Along the way the prop was balanced twice.

I could not get more that the usual vibration (which always seemed to be too
much) on test flights.  Then, unpredictably, vibration magnitude would
increase with power reduction on some later flight.  I say unpredictably
because I could not get increased vibration by attempting to duplicate
previous conditions.  Let's hope a solution surfaces at Airventure.

Steve Colwell  Legacy RG IO550-N with Hartzell 3 Blade


-----Original Message-----
From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Paul
Miller
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 7:22 AM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] Re: Potential Problem-Engine Vibration

Ed Martin's legacy is smooth.  Mine has had a lot of annoying vibes as you
describe but virtually all have been removed with lots of cowling
interference fixes and plug change.  Many pilots forget the alternator can
be a wicked source of vibration and it is almost in the same plane as the
prop.

The problems I had originally were in that freq range and visible at the
wingtip also.

Paul