I wouldn't say that the original Victa needles and Victa primer caps leaked .
If there was a problem.
1, Millions of Victa mowers would not have passed Quality control to be sold. 2 , If the original carbs failed early on there would be millions of people saying how bad a Victa is .
The Problem is manufacturing in China ,there can't be any testing with a lot of the new primer caps flooding.
I've compared the first G4 taper (the cap with the remote mounted primer) with the new G4 primer cap from China and the new caps have a much smaller taper.