Originally Posted by
Chris Carson's Marine
I am aware of your opinion regarding removing the rubber from the cages,when we do this modification we install reeds with slightly larger petals to maintain adequate reed landing surface.There are hundreds of these cages in service,doing well...and,for what it's worth,you can see the petal broke off completely...no damage to any landing surface.I don't know what is causing the failures,but broken petals usually can be associated with fuel getting into the crankcase,a misfiring CDM,or running on the rev limiter,this failure is not common,My opinion,Chris