Hi Duncan
The lockwood article was pretty strong in its recommendation to change them
at 5 year intervals - especially the older types (like the ones we had)
which don't have the sleeve over the tightening screw to prevent you from
over tightening it. If you do this, it weakens the wall - If this cracks,
you could loose all power from one side of the engine while the other side
is generating full power - sounds like a good way to rip the engine from the
mount and subsequent total loss of control - therefore sounded like 100
well spent as our engine is about 8 years + old and sat most of that time in
unused.
Changing all rubber parts - carb sockets, oil hoses, water hoses and fuel
hoses cost us about 250 - do that every 5 years and you're looking at 1 a
week.
exclusive distribution rights in the UK which can only be good news (except
for skydrive!).
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Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 10:24 PM
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> The Rotax manual recommends replacement of all rubber components at 5
> years.
> Mandatory on the certified version.
>
> Duncan McF
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 2:28 PM
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>> We changed ours about 6 months ago - I read an article about how someones
>> split due to ageing - the split put the carbs way out of balance and it
>> could
>> have got pretty nasty. Lockwood in the US recommend (from memory) and
>> absolute
>> maximum service life of 5 years.
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>> I looked around because, as you say, they're really expensive over here -
>> you can get them cheaper in the US but you can't buy directly as Rotax
>> limit
>> where dealers are allowed to send good. By the time they've been posted
>> to
>> a friendly rotax user in the US and then posted on with the risk of the
>> tax
>> man putting his hand out on the way into the country, it just wasn't
>> worth
>> it - we just paid skydrive the silly amount of money (about 45gbp each
>> plus
>> the vat mans share) and they were here next day - really didn't seem
>> worth
>> lots of effort to save 20 or so.
>>
>> Peter
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