TKS-one panel not dripping

[NewMoon]

I'm sure this has been covered before but I couldn't find a thread.

Recently bought the plane, previous owner just completed $25k of work on the tks system. 

I run it every month but the most inboard panel on the pilot side does not drip. All others work great.

I did rub it multiple times with a wet cloth covered in tks fluid.

What other tricks does the group have? 

[exM20K]

Lots of good info here

you may need to find a shop that has a purge pot.  Any big cirrus or Mooney shop should have one.

-dan

[exM20K]

49 minutes ago, NewMoon said:

Recently bought the plane

Congratulations.  What did you get?

-dan

[1980Mooney]

1 hour ago, NewMoon said:

I'm sure this has been covered before but I couldn't find a thread.

I run it every month but the most inboard panel on the pilot side does not drip. All others work great.

I did rub it multiple times with a wet cloth covered in tks fluid.

What other tricks does the group have? 

 

12 minutes ago, exM20K said:

Lots of good info here

you may need to find a shop that has a purge pot.  Any big cirrus or Mooney shop should have one.

Previous post with same inboard issue. 

 

[Fritz1]

yep, it is that time of the year, if running an entire tank on high through the system on the ground while squeezing a copious amount of fluid into the non-flowing panel does not fix it a purging pot is required, might be best to contact CAV aerospace to find a shop that has one, nothing but a brake bleeding pot hoked up tho that particular panel, but have to find a panel connector, if you are anywhere close to CAV aerospace, let's say within non stop range the simplest way to fix this might just be going there and let them check out the entire system, most likely the membrane in this panel is just dried out and you need to run and squeeze in lots of fluid to make that panel flow again, then running each pump for 5 min on the ground on high will keep the membrane moist and all panels will kick in with 3 min when you need them

[NewMoon]

4 hours ago, exM20K said:

Lots of good info here

you may need to find a shop that has a purge pot.  Any big cirrus or Mooney shop should have one.

-dan

Ok, appreciate it

[NewMoon]

4 hours ago, exM20K said:

Congratulations.  What did you get?

-dan

03 Ovation

[GeeBee]

Try a purge first, if that does not work you may need to connect directly to the panel and do a water purge. Contact CAV for purging instructions. If all the purges fail you will have to replace the panel. I have attached the last purging instructions from CAV I have.

TKS Purge 2.pdf

[NewMoon]

2 hours ago, GeeBee said:

Try a purge first, if that does not work you may need to connect directly to the panel and do a water purge. Contact CAV for purging instructions. If all the purges fail you will have to replace the panel. I have attached the last purging instructions from CAV I have.

TKS Purge 2.pdf 86.46 kB · 4 downloads

Appreciate it!