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Fitted an inline fuel filter on the Victa 18 today.



I tried to get these locally, but my options are limited with small engine shops, and the one I went to of course doesn't bother stocking these very common Briggs & Stratton ones. Once again, online shopping to rescue.

These are a 1/4-inch barb Sten's branded aftermarket filter, OEM Briggs is hard to find in Australia. There are two types of these bi-directional filters, the white ones are for engines fitted with a fuel pump, the red ones for gravity fed fuel systems.





It obviously looks a little out of place on such an old mower, but it's at least functional, unlike the rope material used on the fuel tap submerged in the tank. I've been focused on getting this mower to a usable condition, so the filter makes sense in this application. I actually mowed my back lawn with it the other day and came away very impressed. For such a small engine, its got bags of grunt to rip through heavier growth.