MF, all victa carbies are fiddly - the lm has the cam sticking, kill pin and governor issues, the g3 has split gears, and kill pin issues as well. The most trouble free was the old slide barrel ones.
Vint_mow, quite possibly the reason many don't have the little applicator clip is this was a later victa fix - the first ones didn't have them. They started getting customer come backs as the mowers would barely cut grass - running at stuff all rpm.
It turned out the root cause was people cleaning around the carby (or hitting on hedges etc) were knocking the applicator tension off. Victa then added the clip to lock it.
But again, many will have been pulled off and never put back on at services.
