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I should have clarified that the drawing was presented in the forum some time ago. I expected someone might recognize it. Not my work. I'm presently trying to disassemble mine and hopefully learn how they work. I'm trying to understand the pictures and procedures in the shop manual so as to minimize dumb questions to the forum.

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I'm late to the party here. I haven't plugged in hardware nor loaded drivers yet, but My blue vag 409.1 cable and Fiat adapter couldn't have worked as delivered due to an incomplete ground path. It appears that only the "K" and "L" line functions apply here, with IAW15 pins 9 and 10 passing through Fiat cable pins 3 and 1 to the OBDII connector pins 7 and 15 respectively. Additionally the blue cable needs 12Volts and ground via the red and the black alligator clips respectively, to OBDII pin 16 and pins 4/5. My problem was that the Fiat cable ground only goes to OBDII connector pin 5, while the blue adaptor cable ground circuit only went to OBDII connector pin 4. So the board in the blue cable couldn't be powered up and the K and L signal levels had no reference. My fix was to move the black wire inside the blue housing from pin 4, which went nowhere, to pin 5, which gets to IAW15 ground and battery return. So if if you have a problem with the blue cable, this might be worth checking. Thanks for the good work you guys have done here.

Mike, I just talked with Mike Rich and confirmed that my new gaskets are the thick ones. He didn't have an immediate source for the thin ones. However, he's restocking his thin ones, to be available in January. So I'll wait for them. Thanks, Troy

In a phone conversation with Mike Rich, he advised that head gaskets are available with nominal thickness of .060" and .045" and he recommends the .045" version to take advantage of the higher compression allowable with the new pistons. I just received ones from Moto International with part number TL300220600000 that measure about .062" thick, marked with the number 1.5, which I suspect means 1.5 mm thick. Does anyone have a source and part number for the .045" gasket? Thanks - Troy

I'm curious as to how this spring gets enough abuse to cause it to break, even with adequate boss clearance to prevent binding. Early Mazda rotary engines had a problem with cross bolts failing due to fatigue caused by mechanical resonance. The solution was to coat the bolts, or to enlarge the bolts to take away the space around the bolts to damp or prevent lateral movement. Is it possible the pawl spring could be vibrating to the point of metal fatigue. If so, would it be worth while to set the spring and pawl up on a fixture and excite the fixture with a variable speed electric motor with an eccentric weight, to see what happens. Maybe just thumping the fixture with a rubber mallet could show if the spring is prone to resonate. I'm not presently able to pursue this but maybe someone here is equipped to look into it. If we got really lucky maybe the problem could be fixed with something like a teflon bushing between the boss and the spring coils. What do you think? Troy

Placed my order with Mike Rich today. Thanks, Troy

Mike, I'm in for a set. Troy

Mike, My '03 Sport has about 170 miles on the engine. Following advice on this forum, I've accelerated hard a few times to try to seat the rings. I assume I'm still early in the break in process. What, if any, preparation of the cylinder walls would be needed for me to install the new Mike Rich pistons? Thanks, Troy

Maybe the injector is stuck open?

Iron Pony has replacement visors for the Caberg 104 Solo on ebay for $28.00 shipped. It's item 370048405660.

I see what you two are saying in that once you are into a turn, the oil surface stays flat with the sump. But If you countersteer hard to initiate a left turn won't the oil momentarily try to stay on the left side of the sump? I think Pete has a point.

Ratchet, your orifice equation exhibits the same characteristic as a fuel injector. The last term in the flow equation you referenced is the square root of the water column height. Water column height is proportional to pressure. So the flow rate is proportional to the square root of pressure. In an earlier post which I can't locate, John quoted this same relationship for our fuel injectors. (Flow rate 2 / Flow rate 1) = Root(2) of (P2 / P1) Go here and plug in values to prove it to yourself. If you double the pressure, the flow increases by 41%. http://www.csgnetwork.com/fiflowcalc.html