This mower has a Briggs and Stratton 625ex engine with those plastic carbs. I am trying to pull a broken boss off the shaft but it is built in such a way that my puller can't "lock" onto it. For some reason Victa has made the boss with two ledges and neither is big enough to accommodate the grab of the puller. The result is slipping of the puller off whichever ledge I use to latch onto. Very frustrating. I guess it'll be fire axe for this broken boss but if it wasn't broken and I wanted to use it again I would end up in a very bad mood indeed.
Another method I have used, is a small angle grinder with a 1mm thick blade and cut down to the keyway, a cold chisel or suitable wedge usually will loosen up the offending boss by driving into the cut.
Good news. It's off. I found that if I cut away some more of the broken flange it allowed the puller to get an even grip, plus the cut I made down the boss's length and it came away easily.
Hi Sparker, that boss does not look like anything i've seen on a Victa before. Can you give us a close up of the boss and what blade did it have on it? Furthermore, the engine looks like it has a long shaft(70mm), not the usual 50mm shaft found on the Victas. Cheers, Ted
Yes BT, has me a bit confused as well looks like 2 different bosses, first one looks like a bar blade type which would be fitted to that type of motor and the last pic looks like a standard Victa 4 stroke boss that uses the oval blade carrier
Hi Guys, The blade was gone before I bought it and the boss had one of the 4 protrusions broken off. For all I know it may not have been a Victa boss and somebody could have replaced the original with the boss I had to get off. The shaft is the same length as another Victa I have with that same engine (but with normal Victa boss/blade). I'll try and dig it out of my garbage bin once the maggots have settled down a bit.
