Our third annual condition inspection occurred at about 500 hours and required a lot of parts, and work, to complete. The plane has been flying great. During this annual we had to do the 500 hour Magneto Overhaul and we added a G5 to our Advanced/Dynon panel for more redundancy in IFR conditions. Also, from Advanced we replaced our EGTs. We also worked with the folks at Matco on rebuilding and improving our brakes, added TS Flightlines landing leg brake lines and oil return lines for the engine, and had our flow divider rebuilt by Aero Performance. We also tightened our AirFlow A/C compressor bolts and brackets, and improved the cylinder cooling on the pilot’s side of the cowling with some baffle mods, which reduced the CHT’s on # 2 and #6. We upgraded the brake pedal pivot points with a threaded rod, instead of the independent nuts and bolts on each side which seems to firm things up quite a bit.
It was a lot of work and there were quite a few questions to our parts suppliers. Each of the below provided outstanding personal responses, fast service and excellent support:
• Advanced Flight –Rob & Jen Hickman and Trisha Blank
• Barrett Precision Engines –Rhonda Bewley & Allan Barrett.
• TS Flightlines –Tom Swearingen
• Aero performance –Don Rivera and his team.
• Ariflow Performance—Bill Genevro
• Matco –George Happ and his team
I also want to thank our friends who helped us put N408ZW back together. Kevin Dixon, Rick Kozubec, James Migis, Joe Migis, Matt Plaisier, Nathan Moon, Justin Wylie, Myron Nelson, and Dave Valdez.
This inspection took several weeks and each day we learned something new about our RV-10.
• Sent out Mags for the 500 hour Magneto inspection
• Replaced failed Magneto bearing & race in the case
• Removed sump to check for parts and pieces of the failed bearings and race
• Replaced original engine mounts with new Lord mounts
• Repaired leaking fuel divider
• Installed G5 for EFIS redundancy in IFR
• Replaced Matco brake calipers, pads, and rotors
• Upgraded brake pedal pivot points.
• Installed TS Flightlines oil return lines
• Installed TS Flightlines main gear leg brake lines
• Added a Braley mod on front of baffle by cylinder #2
• Made a slight mod on the back baffle by Cylinder #6
• Pulled the wires for the Duckworks wing lights (not yet installed)
• Performed our regular conditional inspection of everything else!
It was a lot of work and there were quite a few questions to our parts suppliers. Each of the below provided outstanding personal responses, fast service and excellent support:
• Advanced Flight –Rob & Jen Hickman and Trisha Blank
• Barrett Precision Engines –Rhonda Bewley & Allan Barrett.
• TS Flightlines –Tom Swearingen
• Aero performance –Don Rivera and his team.
• Ariflow Performance—Bill Genevro
• Matco –George Happ and his team
I also want to thank our friends who helped us put N408ZW back together. Kevin Dixon, Rick Kozubec, James Migis, Joe Migis, Matt Plaisier, Nathan Moon, Justin Wylie, Myron Nelson, and Dave Valdez.
This inspection took several weeks and each day we learned something new about our RV-10.
• Sent out Mags for the 500 hour Magneto inspection
• Replaced failed Magneto bearing & race in the case
• Removed sump to check for parts and pieces of the failed bearings and race
• Replaced original engine mounts with new Lord mounts
• Repaired leaking fuel divider
• Installed G5 for EFIS redundancy in IFR
• Replaced Matco brake calipers, pads, and rotors
• Upgraded brake pedal pivot points.
• Installed TS Flightlines oil return lines
• Installed TS Flightlines main gear leg brake lines
• Added a Braley mod on front of baffle by cylinder #2
• Made a slight mod on the back baffle by Cylinder #6
• Pulled the wires for the Duckworks wing lights (not yet installed)
• Performed our regular conditional inspection of everything else!