Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #51013
From: paul miller <paul@tbm700.com>
Sender: <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [LML] Bad Vibrations
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:28:32 -0400
To: <lml@lancaironline.net>
Steve, I found some interference on the front left rocker cover as well.   We just shimmed the forward left isolation mount on the new mounts and will see if that helps. There was also a hard interference from the baffling plate and it was wearing down some of the cowl hinge in the same area so we had to grind the baffle back a bit.   I checked all the gear doors this weekend on jacks and they are all flush and tight so I think the doors are not the problem.   I don't have pix of the old isolation mounts but they were 250 hours when the forward left was noticed with cracks and we changed them at 300 a few weeks ago when both forward isolation mounts had cracks.  I also changed out the quick drain because it was getting close to the nose gear components and reinstalled the low profile stock oil drain plug until I find something better.

Paul Miller
N357V
Legacy RG s/n 186

On 10-Apr-09, at 8:21 PM, Steve Colwell wrote:
 
Vibration #1 was contact of the left front valve cover with the cowling.  The fix was reducing the height of the valve cover and removing the inner skin and core from the cowl as indicated in the photos.  I verified rocker arm/cover clearance before and after the “fix”.  And nope, the stock Continental cover would not have solved the clearance problem.
 
Vibration #2 was much more interesting.  At about 25 hours, I was over the Cascade Mountains near Redmond when the control stick started vibrating.  At first I thought the engine had gone on Auto-rough due to mountain/night/big water affecting my imagination.  I let go of the stick, still vibrating , so I did not change anything thinking it could be the engine coming apart.  Within easy glide of Redmond I reduced power and it slowly went away.  Fortunately, I had Mark Mahnke available to help trouble shoot.  He suspected the nose gear doors and he was right.  They were just a little too low and when the angle of attack was high enough it would shake.  Leighton Mangels and John Halle have another fix for this by glassing up a little ramp forward of the leading edge of the doors.
 
How many hours were on your isolation mounts when they were “compressed, tilted and cracked“?
 

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