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
>
> 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.
>
> 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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