SERVICE BULLETIN

NOTICE: Service Bulletins are proprietary to Turbomach SA, Via Campagna 15, CH-6595 Riazzino,
Switzerland. The Type of Change and Recommended Compliance specified reflects Turbomach’s best
judgment regarding the Service Bulletin. All questions should be directed to your Turbomach Field Service
Representative. Solar, Saturn, Centaur, Taurus, Mercury, Mars, Titan, SoLoNOx, and Turbotronic are
trademarks of Solar Turbines Incorporated. Cat and Caterpillar are trademarks of Caterpillar Inc.
Specifications subject to change without notice.

TBM#: SB 14-034 Solar#: 8.0/127

ISSUED: 16.10.2014
PRODUCT: MARS 90, MARS 100
MODEL(S): All
Specifics: -
DISTRIBUTION: TBM Worldwide
CONFIGURATION OF MARS® ENGINES RETURNED TO
SUBJECT: SOLAR® OVERHAUL FACILITIES
Type of Change: Product Information
Recommended
Compliance: Information
Type of
Modification: Information

Purpose:
To provide a list of external parts that should accompany Mars engines returned to Solar’s
overhaul facilities.

NOTE
Information contained in this service bulletin only pertains to Mars engines.
Refer to your maintenance manual and/or appropriate service bulletin for
other engines.

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 Table 1 - Listing of Service Bulletins Existing as of this Writing for other
Engines (or consult your maintenance manual)

Engine TBM Service Bulletin

Saturn® 10, Saturn 20 SB 14-026
Centaur 40 SB 14-027
Centaur 50, Taurus™ 60 SB 14-028
Mercury™ 50 SB 14-029
Taurus 65 SB 14-031
Taurus 70 SB 14-030
Titan 130 SB 14-032
Titan 250 SB 14-033

GENERAL INFORMATION:
When an engine is returned to a Solar’s overhaul facility, some external engine components must
be evaluated and then reconditioned or replaced, as appropriate. Failure to return these parts with
the engine to the overhaul center may result in delays and an increase in cost to the end user.
Information regarding what to return can be found in your maintenance manual and here in the
Action Required section.

ACTION REQUIRED:
Engines returned to an overhaul facility should include/exclude external components as described
in the following subsections.

External Engine Parts To Be Returned

• Compressor-to-accessory gear box drive-hub (bolted to the end of the compressor shaft)
• Forward bearing housing adapter (not the drive shaft cover for the stand alone accessory
gear box)
• Air inlet screens
• Variable guide vane system cover and brackets
• Variable guide vane actuator assembly (connected by linkage to guide vane levers)
• Variable vane hydraulic actuators (2) (including hardware up to and including the junction
box on the front support)
• Servo actuator (Cenelec only)
• Number 2/3 bearing inlet tube
• Number 2/3 bearing oil drain adapters
• Fuel injectors, installed intact with all manifolds and pigtails
• T5 thermocouple harness assemblies
• Torch assembly (mounted to the underside of the combustor section)
• Bleed valve including the actuator and elbow
• All magnetic speed pickups and RTDs that are part of the engine
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 • Bleed air tubes and PCD lines
• All external engine brackets (excluding the aft engine mounts)
• Insulation blankets (engine blankets)
• Forward trunnion and mount
• Power turbine lateral guide (plate that bolts to the underside of the power turbine to
interface with the engine support)
• Power turbine output hub
• All PT-related magnetic speed pickups and RTDs

NOTE
If the clutch is also being replaced, all clutch components mounted on the
gear box and on the starter must be returned.

Parts Not To Be Returned

The following external parts must NOT be returned with the engine:

• Pancake style accessory gearbox assembly (unless otherwise scheduled)

• Aft engine mounts (supporting the aft end of the engine)
• External junction boxes
• Special fittings
• Aside from drain fittings, any tubing, lines, or fittings that do not both begin and terminate
on the engine should not be returned. To state it another way, for any line that runs from
the package to the engine (or vice versa) and having a fitting attached to the engine, the
line and fitting should not be returned with engine.
• Starter (including the motor, the adapter, and all clutch components (except when the
clutch is being replaced, in which case, all clutch components mounted on the gear box
and on the starter must be returned))
• Oil pump
• Air inlet duct (inlet collector)
• Exhaust collector
• Interconnect drive shaft (shaft coupling)
• Bleed duct (flexible section)

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 Figure 1 - General Two-Shaft Engine Component Identification (Refer to your
illustrated parts list manual for additional details. Items in red are among
those not be returned. See appropriate subsections above for complete
listings of what to return and what not to return.)

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