Yes along with the many rebirthed respected names by the Chinese and then just bastardising the name with inferior products and sending them to their doom.
This new range of Victa's is similar to that stupid red plastic Lawn Beetle.
My view is once you've lost respect what do you actually have left ???????
Cheers, BB.
I live a 24 Hour lifestyle, but every now and again I seem to fall asleep, well at least that's what my wife tells me.
BB go easy on the Lawn Beetles, I bought another one yesterday for $10, brought it home and it started first pull, bloke said it wouldn't start, probably had the fuel turned off. He looked a bit confused when I said I cut the body into 4 bits so it fits in the rubbish bin easily. This is the sixth one I have cut up. They are not a bad little motor and by putting a decent blade carrier on them instead of the silly bar blade, they have enough spinning inertia to do a good job. Put them on a decent base with a plastic catcher and they aren't a bad mower. I recently ended up with a couple of these Flymo mowers with dead Briggs on them and it was only when I went to put blade carriers on them I realized they were only a bare 17 inch cut. I also discovered that I had a number of catchers in my pile that fit the Flymo, no idea where they have come from
BB, my missus just found me another Flymo and catcher with a buggered Briggs, now I have to look for another Beetle. Somebody must have been selling these Flymos around here , for me to end up with 3 almost identical in the last few weeks is a bit bizare . Hadn't seen any previously
I just heard a story of someone who bought a new Victa with a B&S motor. It had the needs oil on, so the B&S oil was put in. Then motor started, and they mowed for a couple of minutes and , engine made a noise and stopped. The engine was siezed, but the supplier manages to jiggle the blade bar to free the piston. Got it started and all is OK. They said they never let the oil soak in enough before starting, but I think the motor was probably revved up, where with a new motor, you should put a teaspoon of oil in cyninder and run it a low revs just to run it in a little. And get the oil slinger inside to work properly..... There's nothing like starting a new engine......... speedy
........................Keep your blades sharp......................
Just to finalise this thread, the replacement engine I got was fitted to my daily drive, the 20 inch Series 1 Model 45.
As mentioned earlier in this thread I also managed to second the original engine back which was seized and I thought I'd hang on to it for parts for the replacement engine should the need arise at some later stage.
Some time later I opened the box that I put away in the shed only to find that the engine hadn't every been removed from the carton and was still in there exactly the same way as I repacked it to go back to Briggs in Victoria. So from that I discovered that there was never a so-called multiple page report written and a strip down as I was told there was going to be just never happened either. Nothing but BS between the Briggs Dealer and myself it seems.
From here something inside of me said "Lets have a Play" and as such I decided as when this engine was originally cooling down I kept the crank turning by hand to stop the rod seizing permanently on the crankshaft. I'd say doing this saved the engine and as such I took the plug out and poured in about 100ml of oil and then again turned the crank slowly using the recoil starter. It freed up rapidly with every pull to the point that it felt nothing had ever happened to this engine. Surplus oil came back out of the spark plug hole and was cleaned up accordingly, then after that I replaced the plug.
Here was the moment of truth..............................................
I poured about 500mls of fuel into the tank, turned on the fuel tap, set the choke to full and pulled the recoil started briskly and the engine fired up like it was only running 5 minutes ago. I will admit it smoked like a train for about 3 minutes which was to be expected with the oil in the top end but that subsided and this engine just sat in the back of my ute unsecured and idled super smoothly for about 7 minutes. I then upped the speed to about halfway and still it just sat there totally unsecured and in the same spot for about half an hour without any strange noises or problems whatsoever. These engines are great, there's no doubt about it.
But in the end, there's one general rule of thumb when fitting a new engine and that is check the oil properly and don't take any sales crap that's attached for granted.
Cheers, BB.
I live a 24 Hour lifestyle, but every now and again I seem to fall asleep, well at least that's what my wife tells me.
Well BB that is a good win, doesn't often happen like that. I guess it just isn't worth their labour costs to pull things down, but they need to have the motor returned because if they didn't there would be a flood of people claiming their motor had failed once the word got out that they were just replacing the motors under warranty.
It was meant to be the dealer that was supposed to be doing the tear down and report writing. Basically they get nothing out of it, but as the dealer claims you just got to take the good with the bad when your a certified dealership.
But being blatantly lied to by a dealer is not part of the process I'm sure of that.
Cheers, BB.
I live a 24 Hour lifestyle, but every now and again I seem to fall asleep, well at least that's what my wife tells me.
