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Old 8th Oct 2009, 23:33
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Matari
 
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Please do your 2 minute cool-downs. If not, coke will form in the turbine rotor lubricating oil passages, and eventually starve the bearings of oil. It's been a while but I think on the 100-hr. inspections we would remove the oil sump at the bottom of the turbine rotor (it looks like a silver box about the size of a cigarette pack), and using a mirror look up inside the oil passage for coke.

We could always tell when the cool-downs were not done. The coke forms easily and the diameter of the oil passage gets smaller and smaller (much like a clogged artery, I suppose).

Will the engine quit? If not caught and cleaned on the 100-hr. inspection, then coke builds and could lead to bearing failure. Chip lights are meant to warn you, but by then it is too late to prevent the expensive repair bill.
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