X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:07:36 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [69.84.129.240] (HELO asp.reflexion.net) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3.9) with ESMTPS id 4460979 for lml@lancaironline.net; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:51:16 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=69.84.129.240; envelope-from=cberland@systems3.net Received: (qmail 9170 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2010 15:50:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-cs-02.app.dcb.reflexion.net) (10.84.19.2) by 0 (rfx-qmail) with SMTP; 9 Sep 2010 15:50:39 -0000 Received: by mail-cs-02.app.dcb.reflexion.net (Reflexion email security v6.20.4) with SMTP; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:50:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 18467 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2010 15:50:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO remote.systems3.net) (98.172.79.178) by 0 (rfx-qmail) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 9 Sep 2010 15:50:39 -0000 Received: from S3SBS08SERVER.Systems3.local ([fe80::6077:364b:fa39:c71b]) by S3SBS08SERVER.Systems3.local ([fe80::6077:364b:fa39:c71b%10]) with mapi; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 08:50:38 -0700 From: Craig Berland. X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List X-Original-Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 08:50:38 -0700 Subject: [LML] Re: Dukes fuel pump problem follow-up Thread-Topic: [LML] Re: Dukes fuel pump problem follow-up Thread-Index: ActQFbTQ5Q0o353TQYqaMuj6LN1M8gAHyfvQ X-Original-Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_D7A6B5700A0803448C27264F1F538736490D9E5351S3SBS08SERVER_" MIME-Version: 1.0 --_000_D7A6B5700A0803448C27264F1F538736490D9E5351S3SBS08SERVER_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Transdigm purchased Dukes a few months ago. My neighbor has close ties to = the old Dukes ownership. It appears from Transdigm's pricing policies, tha= t the Dukes product line is not long for this world. I am very interested = in the Weldon/Dukes interchangeability. I anticipate we will be forced to = do something in the near future. Russell Steiner, I just experienced a similar fuel pump problem in my IV-P.= The low boost failed to operate on a recent flight. It turned out to be = the "low boost switch" and not the pump. I found that if the switch was pu= shed "full on" it did not supply voltage to the pump. By moving the switch= slightly towards the off position, it worked just fine. I replaced the sw= itch and all is well. Craig Berland N7VG --_000_D7A6B5700A0803448C27264F1F538736490D9E5351S3SBS08SERVER_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Transdigm purchased Dukes a few months ago.  My neighbor has close ties to the o= ld Dukes ownership.  It appears from Transdigm’s pricing policies, = that the Dukes product line is not long for this world.  I am very interest= ed in the Weldon/Dukes interchangeability.  I anticipate we will be force= d to do something in the near future.

 

Russell Steiner, I just experienced a similar fuel pump problem in my IV-P.  T= he low boost failed to operate on a recent flight.  It turned out to be t= he “low boost switch” and not the pump.  I found that if the switch was = pushed “full on” it did not supply voltage to the pump.  By movin= g the switch slightly towards the off position, it worked just fine.  I replaced the switch and all is well.

 

Craig Berland

N7VG

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