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Originally Posted by FBW
Hi all,

Has anyone had a failure of the Conrod big end bearing on one of these engines?

Is the factory aware of the issue and is anything been done ?

Many Thanks
Yep, my 200S did the same.

Big end failures are nothing new. All the DZ engines have had a failure somewhere, sometime, it's not only the 200S.

My first 170 did. I've been using YS for 20 years with 1000's of flights and only had the 2 failures, so that's not too bad.