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  1. Many thanks Tom and Roger. We'll make a plan ... We bent one of the tubular axle fittings and bought a replacement from CT. The new part was very badly fabricated. They'd reinforced it by welding on a reinforcing plate - so it's obviously a known weakness. Problems were that they hadn't reamed the tube subsequent to welding which meant it was heat distorted. The action of installing it also meant the powder coating completely flaked off the unit. Very bad engineering - if we hadn't been on the other side of the globe we would have returned it. The the bolt hole was not placed accurately which meant alignment was way out and impossible to adjust without distorting the hole. The remedy is apparently to weld a washer over the enlarged hole in the correct location. I know this is possible, but we're talking microns of adjustment required to bring the alignment back to spec ... and even if we manage that, we have the same problem of a heat-distorted tube. One question I have, which I couldn't find in the Matco manual, was about the mechanism for adjusting camber and alignment. Is that part of a new axle assembly, and if so, does it come as part of the wheel assembly? Bottom line - and thanks for the info - is it's clear the best solution is to replace this part with a Matco system.
  2. Hi Roger. Has there been any change to the design of the Matco system for the CTsw? Is it still necessary to trim the base of the gear for a fit?
  3. Hi - we can’t find the lower trim tab tab spec in any of the manuals. Ours has partially departed company with the tail section and we’d like to replace it. It has an adhesive strip on the leading edge but is Mylar or something similar with a slight curve along its length to keep the rear in contact with the trim tab. Any ideal on how we can get hold of this?
  4. We're experiencing high exhaust gas temperatures on takeoff on hot days. We've put larger jets in to increase the fuel load for cooling but this doesn't seem to have made much difference. I've noticed that the cowl on our CTsw partially shrouds the radiator and I suspect there's little air flow across it. Our temperatures here on the west coast of Australia can be very high. We're running Evans coolant and may have to consider switching back to a traditional coolant mix. The problem may be that Evans does run hotter and is not as good a conductor. One of the concerns is that while we know the red line is higher, a concern is the amount of heat stress it puts on the engine and the impact on its metallurgy.
  5. Hi. Did you purchase your CT with -6º or -12º as standard settings?

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      24-8003-ms

      Hi - just found this! We purchased it from the US with -6º setting. 

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