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Hi Mowerfreak,

Yes the Victa genuine ones used to fit nice and snug on the air snorkel and the cap keeps it on tight. But after I got that dodgy one it was loose fitting where it sits on the snorkel inlet, so the actual round opening on the air filter is a bit too wide than the bit on the snorkel, you could actually move it side to side a bit where it meets the snorkel inlet. So I thought now that I have to use these aftermarket ones that don't fit tightly on the inlet as the Victa ones used to. I probably need that foam ring on the bottom as extra insurance to help keep the dirt from going straight in through a fine gap where it joins.

I guess it's quite dusty when I mow around here, alot of sections of dry dusty dirt everywhere. I usually just see in through the groove on the throttle housing at the amount of dirt on the air filter. Also I get the air filters and the foam dust seals cheaply now so I just change them out when they look dirty.

I never used the foam dust seals when I used the original Victa air filters. But I do wonder even though they were tight fitting on the snorkel, how perfect they actually did seal where the filter meets the snorkel. Well at least I hope they were a pretty good seal..lol

Cheers!

I had to buy another 10 last night, not happy because they cost me $2.60 each, I can usually get them for about $2 and get 20 at a time but even then they don't last long

Mate, thanks for popping that link up. Went and grabbed 10 today myself!

I went into bunnings today, and sure enough, the victa long air filters are no longer the genuine ones. The last ones I bought (june/july 2018) had a little piece of paper in it, saying made on __/__/17 (don't remember the dates), and a couple of other things typed.

The GA spares ones from the mower shop also have this little bit of paper in the bag. Obviously the profit margin for Victa wasn't good enough, so they went with a cheaper supplier.

The 'genuine, genuine' Victa packaged ones (not lawnkeeper but blue Victa packs) are now even worse.
The filters are made with both ends open ( regular sized hole at either end), then a opaque plastic cap is press fitted onto one. Great place for more dirt to enter.

Says on the back 'packaged in Australia'.

I gave it a miss.

G'day everyone,

Thanks again for that information Tyler I have never even purchased the Victa packaged ones as you say I only ever bought the "Lawnkeeper" ones that Bunnings stocked as they used to have the genuine blue aussie made Victa air filters in the packet.

I used to buy these from Bunnings pretty much from the time Bunnings opened up around here (which was probably around the mid 90's) up until I found out Victa decided to go cheap on their genuine filters which was probably around 5 years ago now maybe?

You know it's funny I was in Bunnings yesterday getting some other things and while I was waiting to pay I saw a Victa salesperson standing next to a table of their new products. I thought should I go over and speak to him about the air filters etc?. Then I thought na bugger it he looks too young and they are only interested in promoting and selling their new current products. I'm not going to bother even mentioning anything to him about the air filters. I already tried years ago and Bunnings and Victa Australia (Briggs and Stratton) don't care about it.

There are still some original blue new old stock genuine aussie made blue Victa air filters on ebay, but they are too expensive to buy and use now. They are probably just collectors items now...lol.

Cheers!