I have a Victa which is hard to start now. It was OK until recently when a neighbour had a loan of it & turned it upside down to clean underneath. Now it takes around 20 pulls before it goes. There is a bit of backfire when starting.The spark plug looks OK but I am going to try a new one anyway. What is the gap?
I noticed also that there is a hole in the primer bulb. Is this OK? Petrol seems to seep out when it is being primed. Any advice will be very welcome.

Re: Victa Commando Power Torque

#2590 12/07/04 06:18 AM

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My Victa became hard to start so I replaced the head gasket and got rid of the decompressor assembly. I put an old spark plug in the place of the decompressor to plug the hole. I put a new plug in and gapped it to 0.635 which is what the manual suggested. I've had no problems since.

ps whilst I had the head off I de coked it too.

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