Hi Sapper,
Thanks for your interest, All good?..well sort of.
The rebuild went really well, I took my time and while it was in bits I gave the hard to find exhaust some attention (good clean and UHT paint up). Once it was all back together it started first pull but it was running really rough and it just wouldn't rev evenly, once it stalled I couldn't start it again.
I came to the conclusion that this was ignition related, the spark seemed to be a bit weak and intermittent so I suspected the coil was the problem. I watched a youtube video (posted by push mower repair) and they stated that the resistance between the primary and secondary windings on the coil should be between 9 - 9.5 Meg ohms, I was only getting around 6 tops so I suspected the coil was breaking down and needed replacing. Lucky enough I found find a NOS replacement on ebay, fitted it.... still the same result.
Now I'm buying a new condenser. I should have replaced this first as it would have been cheaper than a new coil but in the process I've found a really helpful guy here in the UK who stocks vintage/obsolete parts for mowers and he has some good Victa stock so, just waiting for delivery.
I have taken loads of pics of the rebuild and planned to follow this up but life has got in the way again!! I will get round to it soon.
Fingers crossed this is the problem, otherwise it's points next..!!
