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It's not what it always looks like.


Mechanics, looks can lye deceiving when inspecting the hydraulic deck of the Black Hawk Black Hawk

(born 1767, Sauk Sautenuk, Va.—died Oct. 3, 1838, village on the Des Moines River, Iowa, U.S.) Sauk Indian leader. Long antagonistic to whites, Black Hawk was driven into Iowa from Illinois in 1831.
 in cold weather.

If you notice hydraulic fluid hydraulic fluid

toxic because of its high content of industrial triaryl phosphate.
 seepage, don't assume there are component leaks or bad seals.

Determine if you have an actual hydraulic leak by wiping the deck clean. Then run the APU APU Azusa Pacific University
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 for 15 minutes. Then check the deck area again.

Remember, some seepage is allowed, so when performing hydraulic deck inspections like it says in WP 0691 00 of TM 1-1520-237-23-4, follow the leakage inspection criteria.

Before calling AVIM to the rescue, make sure you check out the component preventive maintenance The routine checking of hardware that is performed by a field engineer on a regularly scheduled basis. See remedial maintenance.

preventive maintenance - (PM) To bring down a machine for inspection or test purposes.

See provocative maintenance, scratch monkey.
 services checklist for hydraulics. They're in TM 1-1520-237-PMD and -PMI.

All the other "on aircraft" inspections can be found in WP 1687 00 of TM 1-1520-237-23-12.
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