Hi Sherrie, your call doesn't seem to make a lot of difference, turning the fuel of before stopping, what that does is it gets you in a routine of turning the fuel off. Now that you have a needle that actually shuts the fuel off I(something Victa was never able to achieve because they cheaped out with the rubbish plastic needle) you now have a much better chance of not getting caught again with a flooded motor .If you had come here six months ago we could not have offered you the new needle, you would have had to buy 10 of the plastic rubbish and hope you got one that would work. I started modifying Briggs and Stratton needles, these were better than the Victa but were still a bit problematic but these new viton tipped ones are brilliant.
