Hi Paul,
The 100LL issue is what I read on forum post from others and phone calls that people took from the webinar. I just sounds like they took something away from the webinar that wasn't necessarily intended.
" Don makes a good case for the Tempest being "equal or better"
It isn't equal. It has a different anti drain back membrane and an internal check valve and when I get the chance I will test the pressure relief and when I go back to Rotax in May will talk to them.
I can almost understand using a different filter if one price was largely different than the other, but can't see it if the prices are almost equal. I was in that group many years ago. I don't see the logic here with prices almost equal and a different internal build.
Alternative Oil Filter for Rotax
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Re: Alternative Oil Filter for Rotax
Roger Lee
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Re: Alternative Oil Filter for Rotax
The figure I cited in my webinar is 80%, but I'm not going to quibble over five points.roger lee wrote: Rotax supplies 85% of the worlds small aircraft engines.
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Re: Alternative Oil Filter for Rotax
To me it doesn't make a difference in a few points either. Whether 60% or 80% that's still more than everyone else by a long ways.
Roger Lee
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Re: Alternative Oil Filter for Rotax
That will work.MrMorden wrote: When I change the oil after I seat the filter I always make two Sharpie marks, one on the filter edge and one on the engine in the same spot, and then check them after each flight for a few hours. They never change alignment.
The "custom made" solution is a product called "Torque-Seal":
When I install a filter, when the gasket touches I scribe a line in the paint down vertically from the center. Makes it clear when 270º of tightening (3/4 turn) has occurred. You may be able to just make it out on this filter, along with some (rather sloppily applied) Torque-Seal:
Re: Alternative Oil Filter for Rotax
Yeah, I have torque seal...but a Sharpie makes less mess.
Andy Walker
Athens, GA
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Athens, GA
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