Rotary Owners' Club

As I may have mentioned before, 044 is "a good bike spoiled".

I could agree more

John,

This for your info

Please see attached a photo of two new SU carb piston springs (RED) received today from Burlen.

Hope this helps

Tony

John, The piston springs have a certain spring tension depending on application, paste this into your browser: http://sucarb.co.uk/piston-springs.html The springs in our SU carbs are RED, this information was kindly supplied by George Molyneux a source of excellent information on our rotary's. The r...

All,

Grateful for advice/information regards the colour of the piston springs for our SU Carbs as fitted to water cooled Commanders.

Thanks
Tony

Apologies if this is old news. Last night just happened to tune into Car SOS on channel 4 episode 7 where the presenters were going over a Mazda RX-7. Quite interesting discussion concerning the rotary engine, I thought the compression tester was a neat piece of kit being able to show the compressio...

John, I have had a similar problem of when cold the right hand side would not pick up until warmed up, I found the cold start jet (the arrangement that the choke cable is connected to) blocked with dirt, once cleaned out it now pickes up and runs well even when cold. How many turns out from fully cl...

John,

20.5 cm is the set length, there is still a good bit of adjustment left but not required on my bike.

As long as the choke lever at the throttle butterfly's is properly aligned and you have the rod in the correct hole in the plate at the carb end 20.5 cm should be close enough

Tony

John,

The idle rod length on my Commander is 20.5cm

Tony

John, My Commander has a 3 phase alternator. 3 phase means it has three wires it produces unregulated alternating current (ac) alternator is another word for generator, unregulated because as the engine speed goes up down so does the output from the alternator. The electrical system on your bike is ...

John, The sender for the temperature gauge is the one wire mushroom connector The temperature switch for the fan has two connections only On the diagram the temperature gauge item 10 is wired as follows: GU sender mushroom connection B is Negative W two wires connected together is Positive The lamp ...

John, The following is taken directly from the Commander owners manual: Cooling system TYPE: Forced circulation with thermostat control and by-pass system for reduced warm-up time. Electric fan for circulation of ducted cooling air. COOLANT: 50/50 Glycol Water THERMOSTAT: Opening temperature 85°C FI...

John,

Are you running a water cooled Commander?

Tony

John, My water cooled Commander temperature gauge works by measuring the resistance of the sender to earth. The sender, the thing with one wire and attached to the engine, has a certain resistance when cold, as the engine warms up the resistance changes. The temperature gauge passes a small current ...

Dave,

A company called Dingbro in Aberdeen with branches throughout Scotland keep the filters in stock.

If you would like help in getting in touch with them let me know

Tony

Dave,

The attached fits my Commander and are readily available.

Tony

Ned,

See attached description of the LED sequence hopefully it will help.

A hot engine that will not start is often due to a lack of compression, not sure if the rotaries are the same. Once warmed up will it run well and pull hard?

Let us know what you find

Tony

Zahid, Some of this may help you, by the way I have owned my Commander for several years: After a full engine overhaul I did not go over 4000 revs for 500 miles then let it slowly return to normal speeds for the last 500 with no ill effects My temperature gauge changes very slightly depending on the...

John, My TOM TOM came with a USB lead so I fitted a USB adaptor, the downside with the one I purchased off E Bay is that it has a blue back light, which distracted me when riding at night, the solution was to cover the face of the adaptor with black tape. If your satnav is set up for 12 volts then i...

This may be of interest. Last year prior to attending the International rally in Italy I prepared the Commander and amongst other things greased the oldham coupling, having just returned from the IoM I decided last night to re-grease the coupling finding the coupling to be OK but very dry, the bike ...

The rear foot rests as fitted to my my Commander are Yamaha, have a look at Yambits and search for rear foot pegs

Tony

All, This may help some and be of interest to others. I debated long and hard about fitting SS brake hoses to the front brake on my Commander this winter, having been told that SS hoses make the feel of the brake "wooden" and finding that Andover have in stock a full set of original hoses ...

Derek,That's really good of you, good hunting.Many thanksTony

Graham,Excellent many thanksTony

John,Thanks for your replyI did a search on the forum but cant find any posts that suggest someone is considering making them, I will keep checking and if I find any info will post it here.All the best and Merry ChristmasTony

Dropping my Commander in France on the way to the NOC International Rally this year did not do much to improve the look of the right hand silencer heat shield.Andover Norton only have L/H heat shields, Startright do not list either side.If any kind soul has a spare right hand silencer heat shield in...

Having rebuilt the Commander engine I set about running it in all seemed ok except the tick over, which I could not get right, it would not tick over when cold, when hot I could get a decent tick over but it was not steady and when the cooling fan cut in the speed dropped to an almost stall. Letting...

Paul,My limited experience with rotaries involves my Commander, but for what its worth and noting that you have connected the sparkrite box directly to a pos and neg supply could suggest its the box at fault.However on my Commander if the trigger fitted to the flywheel was not connected properly or ...

If it is similar to my Commander page 24 and 25 of the replacement parts catalogue shows the frame drain fitting in the frame. Having just rebuilt my Commander I would suggest removing the right hand carb for access to the fitting item 5 then tightening the nylock nut item 10.If you would like me to...

Joe/Ian,Great feedback thanks for taking the time to share your experiences.I will let you know what I eventually end up with.Tony

All,I am considering the purchase of an intercom so that my wife does not have to make hand gestures, which I do not understand, when she wants to stop for a break or thinks I have taken the wrong turning, going too fast etc etc.My question is does anyone use or can recommend an intercom?I am aware ...