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Oil leaking fuel pump.....

Daida

Well Known Member
Hi Folks,

other than a small oil leak, i love my plane!
The oil leak isn’t much, it is not compromising flight safety.
It is just annoying and messing up the white painted belly.

So i chased it down.

It occurs that the oil is coming out between the pump housing and drive shaft housing (see red arrows in pics).
It is the airmotive engineering vane pump, belonging to my ECi IOX-360 TITAN.
The problem is, the assembly is plombed (lead-sealed, see picture) and i am not willing to risk warranty on that one. (I put the cloth around it with tie-wraps during leak chase)

Engine has approximately 40 hours since new.

I am contacting my engine shop parallel to starting this thread.

As long as i know now where the oil is coming from, i could just monitor the ammount, clean the belly once in a while and go on.
Weird is, that the documentation mentions an possible oil leakage of 2cc per hour (see attachment, red circled).

Now what......??

Has anyone had the same issue?
What was the fix, if any?
What would you do about it ?

Thanks in advance for your inputs.
 

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My engine driven fuelpump is leaking oil also on my I0 360 fuel injection engine. Also I think the fuel pump is going out the fuel pressure goes down to 5 psi
 
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