slow_runner
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About the fuel line. It is 3/16" at the carb and 5/16" onto the fuel tank.
Do I require a genuine item or will standard 3/16" fuel line be satisfactory if I put one end in hot water and feed/form it onto the fuel tank spigot??
A stepped adapter is possible but if hot water will do the job..........
I attended to the Victa/Honda today. The Honda started well enough but no throttle response.
It appeared that someone had buggered about with the choke because it was oriented incorrectly with the quadrant 90 to the left; I disengaged the tension spring and leveraged the plastic quadrant over the stop pin-sorted.
Along with that the governor plate(?) had been butchered with the choke arm bent and twisted all about and very sloppy at the pivot., the guts of the kill switch was missing, the speed control/choke mechanism was sloppy also.
All sorted with the aid of a small ball pein hammer, ball bearing, larger hammer, pliers etc. I salvaged a rusty kill switch off an old donor motor- with the aid of the Dremel it cleaned up well so I saw to it with some dilute phosphoric acid then a coating of boiled linseed oil/mineral turps on it; also coated all other slightly corroded fixtures. The boiled linseed oil will harden off and seal the rust for a long time- it's good stuff and cheap..
Do I require a genuine item or will standard 3/16" fuel line be satisfactory if I put one end in hot water and feed/form it onto the fuel tank spigot??
A stepped adapter is possible but if hot water will do the job..........
I attended to the Victa/Honda today. The Honda started well enough but no throttle response.
It appeared that someone had buggered about with the choke because it was oriented incorrectly with the quadrant 90 to the left; I disengaged the tension spring and leveraged the plastic quadrant over the stop pin-sorted.
Along with that the governor plate(?) had been butchered with the choke arm bent and twisted all about and very sloppy at the pivot., the guts of the kill switch was missing, the speed control/choke mechanism was sloppy also.
All sorted with the aid of a small ball pein hammer, ball bearing, larger hammer, pliers etc. I salvaged a rusty kill switch off an old donor motor- with the aid of the Dremel it cleaned up well so I saw to it with some dilute phosphoric acid then a coating of boiled linseed oil/mineral turps on it; also coated all other slightly corroded fixtures. The boiled linseed oil will harden off and seal the rust for a long time- it's good stuff and cheap..
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