Tisk Tisk Milling, two strokes are a great thing. Nice and simple and not that expensive to fix. Beauty of it is there always some dumb wad about that forgets the oil and gives up so you get cheap parts.


As for the drowned mowers. Unless you can get into it and dewater and dry it out fully, leave it be. Its only when you let the air to it that things go bad.
Ive had a few power torques with water in them. They dry out well, head off, starter off and tip them over cylinder down. Dose them up with CRC and into a warm dry spot.
I had a full crank that sat with water for ages. Chock a block full of water for well over a year. It freed up easily, i stripped it down and only took the cylinder off, and sat it aside came back to it the next day and it was locked up solid.


The plug thing you refer to, the CJ8 is a short plug, its for the east-west motors. And the J8 or the C8 (cant remember which one) is for the rear facing motors, its normal length and well protected so it does not have to worry about being snapped off. I think the sideways briggs use the CJ8 as well, the forward facing ones just an RJ12A or something. I forget things too easy, i just got with a sample in hand.


Unless Victa makes a 90 degree piston all you could do would be to rotate the cylinder 180 deg to swap the carb and exhaust to opposite sides. I dont think the way the head goes on matters much. Well obviously you would not want the decompressor at the bottom.


Cheers, Bob.