Hi LRT, is the Victa waveform from one of the coils we had here that we proved worked fine. I wouldn't go to too much trouble trying to straighten the crank, I have a pile of full crank motors out the back, just not sure if you can use the early cup type starter crank in the side pull motors. Never looked into that. They have the points ignition and not sure if you could use the side pull flywheel on the early crank. Never know till you have a go.