Tractor Repair reports

Juliet and Emmanuella have written shop reports on their tractor repair work.

Emmanuella's report

Juliets Report

Hydraulic work

Changing of the hydraulic pump

Date 22/02/2012
Time 08:00am
Location Hanger three
Materials Grease, Gasket, marker pen, O-ring, Washers and Bolts
Equipment 16mm Spanner, Ratchet and Robber Mallet
Roles

Zaen The instructor of the task.
Emmanuella The assistance in cleaning the hydraulic tank, watching and writing.
Juliet Taking photographs, cleaning and watching.
Lydia The assisting with bringing tools, cleaning of the differential hydraulic and some parts of the tractor.

Procedure: At the beginning of the work, Zaen talked about what we would be doing on the tractor concerning the hydraulic pump. The reason why the old hydraulic pump was being changed was that, the teeth of the Bering had chewed and no longer functioning as it should so it needed to be changed.



Working on a tractor is almost the same as working on an aircraft, something like this not everybody that has the interest for it, somebody like Zaen has the experience for fixing a tractor hydraulic pump and it would be very easy for him because he had the passion for it and he does not just have the knowledge for one thing but has it for most things and he has the interest for them.

The tractor was clean with a clean rag, after the cleaning, the chair was removed, bolts and nuts were also removed from the hydraulic pump, and we tried hard to raise the deferential up from the pump. The hydraulic oil was drain underneath the gear pump, the inside of the oil tank was clean after the oil has been drained. The inside was checked for debris and it was clean, we covered it for some days searching for a new Bering.

This is the old hydraulic pump and the Bering.







The groove of the tank where the gasket goes was greased and sealed with a gasket, it was covered with the deferential and afterwards the hydraulic oil went back into the tank.



The new hydraulic pump and the Bering were set back on the tractor and had been tighten with 16mm spanner.




Observation: We were happy when we finished with the work and the tractor went back into service.

Outcome: It was working perfectly.

Special day

I took Emmanuella and Juliet flying this morning...

It was a very good weather for circuits and the two Girls did brilliantly.
They all know their checks, all procedures and everything on their finger tips.

When we got back, Lydia wanted to go flying too, but I said to her that she has to wait to fly in AF since she is a special case.
She was running out of patient and then she realised, is really true she going to fly in the very nice PLANE.The other Girls flew in the old baby of the field

She can operate the throttle, stick and even the flaps with NO problem. Well done Lydia.

Here is Lydia in the beautiful GIRL.

100 hour sevice

When we do the 100 service, or any service, we do so according to a servicing checklist. At WAASPS there is a standard, generic form that has to be completed... here it is partly completed. It will be completed at the test flight.

The Girls doing a 100hr service

So the Girls are going to be working on AE today.

They are going to be doing a hundred hour service and I will be bringing more details on that soon.

Stay with us...

they took the servicing seriously and everyone of them being very proactive in that workshop making things happen as they should be.

Engineering

The girls today were involved with putting a new hydraulic pump on the Airfield tactor that was grounded about a month ago.

We are not far from making it work again.

CBT

The ladies did more work with computer based training.

The lesson this week, is focusing human performance and limitations.