I'm hoping not to have to delve too far into this Victa carbie world but do appreciate your help.
It was running perfectly when put away and would be great if just disabling the original klll switch would get me a spark, although I would also want to make some mechanism to kill the motor for safety reasons.
Although it was stored in a dry shed we had constant heavy rain from October 2021 to July 2022 and then just rain/drizzle for months - this created a bad humidity problem and I suspect there will be some fungus under the flywheel.
And, there's always a back story.....
When found by the roadside this was surprisingly complete and ran OK but smoky and no compression. I put it aside and by chance found a NOS Victa 2nd oversize piston later, then took off the cast iron barrel, had it bored and fitted the new piston/rings/pin, and it ran superbly. Then into storage.
Thanks to the heavy rain mowing or doing just about anything outdoors was not possible until only a few weeks ago and the grass and weeds are "as high as an elephant's eye".
Next, headquarters at a certain unnamed emergency organisation I work with demanded we dump and replace all our petrol supplies for 2 and 4 stroke stuff. Somehow I ended up with all the "dumpings" including way more "old" 2 stroke fuel ( which I had personally mixed ) than my chainsaws and brushcutters would use in a year.
Been mowing a lot and thought it a good idea to break out one of my stored 2 stroke mowers to chew up the free fuel. The Sunbeam with its hardly used piston seemed a logical choice.
