OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums General Discussion Forum Off Topics Bodgey Jobs on Victas.

I found this amusing YouTube video on Australians penchant of repairs on the go.

Typical You Tube a lot of carry on about absolute nothing, he obviously has not seen too many dodgy repairs if he thinks they are bodgeys

G'day everyone,

I can add some photo's of my recent kerbside find and an older hard rubbish find as they have some sort of bodgey repair and parts, I don't know about bodgey though, I guess if you want to keep using a mower sometimes you have no choice but to bodge something up and keep using it when you can't find any spare parts for them or maybe people just don't want to spend any money on them...lol

I have a few photo's below of the recent Victa Corvette find, with the big metal patch panel on the deck with all the rivets installed. This mower also had a plastic tyre valve cap shoved in the end cap to close up the hole where the idle adjuster screw used to be.

On the red powertorque Victa mower which I found from hard rubbish years ago, it had an earlier style longer decompressor valve fitted to the engine, the carby was resting against the valve and also all the top corner of the plastic cowling in that corner was sitting a bit higher and bent up because of the longer decompressor valve fitted instead of the proper shorter style decompressor valve.

Cheers!

With the Victa with the side plate. I put the rivits with heads inside, less for grass to get caught up on, but a workable solution... why not
speedy

I would not call these bodging things up, these are running repairs and nothing wrong with these, I'm waiting for AVB to come and tell about blade carriers held on with duct tape etc, now they are bodges,

Finally got around to looking at a briggs 35 engined Morrison. Wouldn't prime - soon worked out why

Question - if you lost the screw for the air filter, would you araldite a smaller bolt in ?

The guy (presumably a guy) put some much in that it ran into the primer hole. Drilled it out, and primes fine now.
It had more dirt in the carby than I have even seen in one of these - the dirt shown is only 1/3 of what was in there

Tyler I must have a look at that one day, if I end up with a carb that doesn't prime, I just swap it over from the pile of Briggs carbies and tanks for one that does prime. Before I pull a carby off a motor I check to see if it works and I tick or cross them with a paint pen so I can easily see what is good or bad. One day I might go through and check a few that don't prime

Thats exactly what I did, and the morrison went first go. Very slight rod knock but run reasonably well. One that I don't mind doing the side verge with all the tiny gum nuts on it with.
I have found that sometimes they don't prime due to the little spring, ball bearing and rubber washer falling out of one of the holes behind the primer.

I actually sometimes put the regular large whipper snipper primer bulbs (that fit zama and walbro) on these briggs, reusing the existing circular retaining washer. Came about when i ran out of the proper ones one day.
Seems to work just as well