Good find with that Victa Pace at the tip Tyler, I also found a Victa Pace at the scrap metal yard which I got for $20. Luckily for me it turned out to be a great mower now it's up and running! LOL! at that picture of the first spark plug! I don't think I have ever seen a plug that clogged up before! haha.
Hi Mowerfreak, I think it's best to get a new exhaust gasket when you remove and replace the muffler on a full crank, unless you have recently installed a new gasket then it's probably still usable. The muffler is easy to remove I just get a flat blade screwdriver under the top clip and just lever it up a bit to unclip it from the muffler, then the bottom clip just falls off or just use the screwdriver to move it away from the muffler. The hard part is putting the buggers back on again from what I remember on my full crank! LOL!
Ok yes it seems the piston is scored pretty bad, the ridges run from top to bottom of the piston and through the rings. I tried to take some photo's of the piston from the exhaust port. At least now I know why I couldn't get this thing started..lol
Cheers!
Zip a dee doo dah, zip a dee ay, another trash picked Victa, hip hip Hooray!
