OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums Repairs and Maintenance Questions on Walk Behind Lawn Mower Frames Victa Lawn Mower Frames im a newby too. confused and stumped

hi am new to this site, it seems like a really great site.

dont seem to know how to start a topic, but did so fine here, hey. lol.

decided to join so i can try and fix my lawn mower, a victa mustang v40, my hubby stuffed it, have been working on it all day. pull cord spring seems sprung. any help please.

has taken me approx 2 hours to find the "donate" sign with paypal. dont have credit or spare money hubby invalid pensioner and im his carer. do you know of any way i can find info on below for no cost.

any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance

kim

Kim,

I will try to help with your problem but I need a bit more information on what the hubby has done with the victa mower.

thanks bruce

i continued to tinker, mower starts now, not sure what i did, but cord doesnt recoil. have tried turning centre thingy (lol) to tighten spring, but it just goes round and round and round with no tension occuring at all. also the 3/4 circle metal coil on bottom of assembly was removed, i'm not sure which way it goes, have tried a couple of directions (with triangle bit pointing up), last try got the mower to start on about the 5th pull, lots of rewinding though, then me dancing around back yard yipping for joy, with hubby looking at me strange, cause at least it started. lol.

i think he's now a bit sick of hearing about mowers now cause i learnt a lot from your site yesterday, on and off site over many hours, and keep telling him all about what i find out. absolutely great site for us tinkerers that care to do a bit of research first so as not to stuff up.

if you can decifer all that and hopefully help that would be great, otherwise i'll keep my screwdriver handy and keep rewinding, at least i can try to keep the jungle from forming. lol.

thank you very much

kim