by Alan Arnold » one month ago
Yesterday I carefully removed the new bowl on the port side carberator and closely looked at the gasket. It is completely in the groove of the carberator. The clip was just as hard to pull back into place. I only looked at the one. Has anyone here replaced their bowls? How did your retaining clips work with the new style bowls?
Alan
by Roger Lee » one month ago
Hi Alan,
The clip pull back is firm, but should not be overtly hard. If it is it usually means the rubber gasket is out of the groove or when someone put the rubber one in left the old cork gasket in there and now the two gaskets are too thick. A different bowl shouldn't be any different.
Roger Lee
LSRM-A & Rotax Instructor & Rotax IRC
Tucson, AZ Ryan Airfield (KRYN)
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by Alan Arnold » one month ago
I agree that there should be no difference, but there is. I have replaced my1048hr carb floats several times and they have been rebuilt several times (rubber replacement Lockwood) and I have the newest old rubber gaskets (July) in a ziplock bag. I don't know why they are thicker top to bottom but they are. They have 2 hours of flight time since bowl and gaskets replacement and don't leak so I'm going to fly fly and just do my normal preflights. Thanks for your advice.
Alan
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