Broken crankshaft
in General Tech Discussion
7 years ago
Having owned a MTO Sport Gyrocopter for two and a half years which was bought from Autogyro in Germany.
It was a 2011 Gyro but only bought two and a half years ago with only the test hours,3 hours on the machine,the machine was secondhand in that it was ordered from the factory by the previous owner who never took delivery as the country he was from you had to assemble 51% of the gyro so he then asked Autogyro to send him a kitset and sell his previously ordered gyro.
Recently I took my Gyro for a service and 100 hour check [the total engine hours from new is 120 hours]and they discovered that it has a cracked camshaft,when they pulled the gearbox off for further inspection the crankshaft had completely snapped off!
On further investigation I read that Rotax had in fact issued a bulletin alert saying that there was a batch of defective camshafts ,apparently 200 worldwide.
Just wondering if anyone else was affected by this and what the outcome was as it is out of warranty but clearly a manufacturing fault with the crankshaft?
Your feedback/comments would be appreciated.
Kind regards
Richard Wagner
It was a 2011 Gyro but only bought two and a half years ago with only the test hours,3 hours on the machine,the machine was secondhand in that it was ordered from the factory by the previous owner who never took delivery as the country he was from you had to assemble 51% of the gyro so he then asked Autogyro to send him a kitset and sell his previously ordered gyro.
Recently I took my Gyro for a service and 100 hour check [the total engine hours from new is 120 hours]and they discovered that it has a cracked camshaft,when they pulled the gearbox off for further inspection the crankshaft had completely snapped off!
On further investigation I read that Rotax had in fact issued a bulletin alert saying that there was a batch of defective camshafts ,apparently 200 worldwide.
Just wondering if anyone else was affected by this and what the outcome was as it is out of warranty but clearly a manufacturing fault with the crankshaft?
Your feedback/comments would be appreciated.
Kind regards
Richard Wagner
