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oil flter housing
Skyking
Thankyou for your thoughts. I have not had experience with an aviation situation of this type so your comment re a release and non-disclosure clause are most helpfull.
The shop which dissasembled the engine has put in an SDR in Canada and I would certainly look at the unit if I had one. I understand there is an old service buletin which says one "may" take the spring disc assembly out, peen a plug disc solidly in place and run a bypass filter instead. Sounds like a very good "suggestion"to say the least.This is what had been done in the first housing which we had to replace as the plug had come adrift and was rattling around in the seat where it at least culd not do major damage other than cause limited filtering of the oil.
So, in conclusion I am leary of the peening a plug remedy as we have seen a failure of that also. You can not detect that failure without removing the filter housing which I dont think happens very often. Ours was off to fix a leak in somthing else. So, one will merrily look at the oil fiter thinking the engine is showing no wear when in reality you will have no indication what is going on till oil consumption changes dramatically or a more catastrophic failure occurs.
This needs to at least have a regular inspection time of some number of hours or a better fix.
I dont want to alarm anyone but if our engine had crapped out at 16,000 ft over the rocks in the clag with a full load it could have been an ugly situation.
Cheers
Alan
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