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     1. 11:39 PM - Split brake line  (TeamGrumman@aol.com)
     2. 11:44 PM - Oil canning just forward of the tail tie down.  (TeamGrumman@aol.com)
 
 
 
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Time: 11:39:47 PM PST US
From: TeamGrumman@aol.com
Subject: TeamGrumman-List: Split brake line

--> TeamGrumman-List message posted by: TeamGrumman@aol.com

Here's one for the books.   

A customer complained of brake fluid dripping out of the weep holes on the 
bottom.   I looked all over the brake master cylinders, flex brake lines, etc.
 
Nothing.   Several months ago, I put clean white rags under the pedals to see 
if I could find the source of the brake fluid.   Nothing.

So, this annual I pulled the pilot's seat, side panels and kick panels.   The 
brake line is spline along it's seam (that's what it looks like) about 18 
inches forward of where it exits the cabin and goes into the wing.   This 
location is just forward of where it bends to go along the corner of the cabin
floor. 
  

Anyone heard of this?

Gary







 
 
 



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Time: 11:44:54 PM PST US
From: TeamGrumman@aol.com
Subject: TeamGrumman-List: Oil canning just forward of the tail tie down.

--> TeamGrumman-List message posted by: TeamGrumman@aol.com

I leaned on my horizontal a few days ago and heard a buckling sound.   Not 
the sound I would want to hear.   Lifing up on the horizontal, I heard it again.

  As it turns out, the tail tie-down ring had been 'struck' at some point 
before I bought the plane.   I have been ignoring the tie down ring.   This was

the first time I'd noticed the oil-canning.

In the investigation that I expected would turn out to be damage in the 
vertical supports, I noticed a 'u' shaped channel doubler on the left side, 
vertically, halfway between the vertical support (that is the source of the service

bulletin) and the forward bulkhead that was designed to be the forward support

for the original Traveler.   

Anyone seen or heard of this?

Gary