Dear Dave.
it was not my intension to offend anyone with my frustrating remark, but when you are located many thousand miles away from any service station or a Rotax specialist, a problem like this becomes a major issue for me. If i need to send this engine to a service station un the UK, it would be almost the price of a new engine, so you can maybe understand my situation. This is why i try to reach out to some experts to give their advise on this problem. If i had your luxury to drive just a few miles for help, i would do that, but this is not my case. I am sorry if i offended you or any of the designers, but this is something that should not happen to almost a new engine.
Regards,
Johann G. Iceland.