I haven't actually tried starting the mower without the belt.but i have bench ran the same size engine and having no flywheel on it it ran perfectly fine
Hi Gizmo, curious about the above comment. My understanding is that the engine needed the blade disk and blades to balance correctly, or it won't run correctly? I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure I have both read that here and experienced it myself. Does that sound right? If so, how do you run a PT on a bench? Just curious as to your setup.
Moving on from that, as far as I'm aware, and this is why I suggested checking the parts/owners/service manuals, the engine is the same. For example, on the MSP602, MSP562, and MMX482, my understanding is that they all run the VEX60. They're all the same generation, they're all the same engine. So the way I'm looking at it, if you took the engine from any one of those and swapped it with the other, unless a specific component was different, such as the decompressor, they're all running VEX60's and should be compatible with each other. Same carby, throttle, same compression, etc. The only part I'm aware that would or may be different is what's on the end of the crank. The blade boss, disk, pulley, blades, etc.
So this comes back to... how can something further down the line affect the function of the decompressor all the way up the chain? And, if every mower had this issue, how could Victa sell it? Wouldn't they have endless complaints and returns? Wouldn't we know about it here?
