If any doubt you could sit the gear wheel on a piece of thick paper and spray paint around it and post that to them to ensure correct size. Only if there is a doubt about size. Cheers.
It would have been a good development to increase the cross over pipe at the time of doing the casting patterns for the intake manifolds as there is good feedback from those that do such about the smoother idle and possibility of operating at 50% power in the instance of one throttle cable / connection breaking and engine going to full power on one carby. Would have been a good change to what Rotax have there in my opinion. (I'm open / planning to increase my R ULS balance pipe i.d. size.)
No flying this weekend with our little cyclone visit. Hope everyone in the area is safe. The effect is now between Bowen and Sarina. Should be over the coast in 3 to 5 hours.
Agree, also about 9 years ago rotax altered the spec of their oil filters to be a couple of mm longer and then they would not come off with the header in place on the factory exhaust system (talking UL and ULS).
It would be a mockup, my Rotax set up is similar re header to oil filter (although a bit more clearance) I cannot remove my oil filter whilst the header is in place. This is not an issue; as I replace the oil filter every second oil change (100 hrs) and remove the header as I 'Kopper kote' the ball sockets of the header to the muffler every 100 hrs.
I see the mock up is tube in tube fit header to muffler and expect it would be a ball / socket type to allow slight movement for alignment etc.
I was in the back, they couldn't get the engine running right so cancelled and refunded the ticket. Heard later recent o that day it had a engine issue and only just got back to the strip.
Angus M is an old boss of mine, He in early days was a Navy Clearance diver; he is big on training, preparation, apply learnings, getting it right and a very good communicator. ATSB is in good hands.
Agree, maybe have a short length of rubber coolant hose ready o cap it, hose plugged one end and secured with a hose clap over threads, as a temporary fix.
As Chuck Y says;- "If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing." Therefore not an outstanding landing I'd say.
Two injured in light aircraft crash near Noosa, Queensland, aircraft type not known at moment.
A light aircraft has crashed on Noosa North Shore in difficult-to-access terrain, prompting a major emergency response involving five fire crews.
You could make one in epoxy resin, I have done the following in the past. Cut a circle of stiff thin material 0.5 aluminium or plastic sheet to fit over the opening, then coat the threads and top with mould release wax ( a floor type wax or PVA mould release) {maybe try a a fibre glass repair shop or boat builder) then mix some expoy resin and thicken with fibre glass mat cut into the smallest pieces so you have a paste (between honey and peanut paste runniness). Use some plasticine to build a base area to be the bottom of the new cap (if you can't get plasticine then cut a washer like donut to be a tight fit over the thread of the container) Next apply the resin fibre mixture over the container threads and repeat a few to build up the thickness. You will have a nice cap and you can sand and neaten it up to suit. Just an idea.