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I have a Victa Mustang that is in reasonable condition with an undamaged cowl. This is one of those Victas that suffered from the "long lunch syndrome" where the nutters there put the G4 carb on backwards so the primer was unreachable. I have on other occasions cut a section out of the cowl so I could run the snorkel down the RH side and this then makes the carb the right way around. I am a bit reluctant to cut up this cowl because of the condition. It is a good solid mower with good wheels (very rare on a 2 stroke) and has years of good life left in it so I am a bit unsure what to do

Hi NormK ,
They overcame this with a remote primer bolted to the chassis. Your one must have been in the window of time where they first introduced the G4 carburettor set up with the grey primer free float chamber cap without a remote primer. If someone has retrofitted a white cap with primer button, then you can reach it with your finger with some difficulty, if the hot start position on the throttle control won't do the trick.
I would only convert it if I could locate a decent cover with the factory made snorkel port, otherwise I'd put up with starting it without a primer or try to get a remote primer to set up.

Hi Norm, yes, i agree with MF, replace the primer cap with an older grey one and fit a remote primer. Quite a few of the orange utilities with the white cowl had the remote primer setup so finding the bits shouldn't be an issue, and you can always put the later primer face on the utility.

Thanks BT and MF, I probably have a remote bulb bits here, just have to dig them out. It is easy to see why they did it, they had all these cowls left over from the G3 carbs and had to use them up before they started using the later Mustang cowl with side cut out. I have a couple of those so may use one of those.

At least you can get to the kill wires easily. If the cover is in exceptional nick without missing slats in the vent grills, I think you should try and keep the snorkel to the left hand side. Does it have a catcher to go with it?
If so, you should be able to attract a three figure amount for it, once set up with a remote primer.
I, personally would hold onto it as they are not as easy to obtain as they used to be, especially with a good cover that old.

Pushed it aside for the moment, just have to keep pushing on with other things to just try and reduce the number of mowers here because it is becoming too crowded to move around easily. I will get back to it later.