Yes Norm even Aldi had problems lately selling new mowers and had dropped the price $50. and still had a pile of mowers in stock.
Years ago you had people lined up outside waiting for the store to open so they didn't miss out.
ok I did have a quick check online just to see what Power Torque rod works as I don't have one out to measure but
as far as I can tell the later Power Torque may have the big end bearing for a crank pin whose OD is 0.775 inches.
So I wouldn't try using an early one.
From memory.
The transition from imperial to metric machining happened within the Power Torque generation itself.When Victa launched the Power Torque engine in late 1983, they initially carried over the exact same imperial toolings they used on the final full-crank engines—meaning early 1983/1984 Power Torques used the smaller imperial 0.750{ inch}big-end pin.As the Power Torque engine evolved Victa modernized the crank tooling to go fully metric, stepping the pin size up to that heavier-duty 19.68{ mm} (0.775{ inch} size to suit standard metric caged rollers.
I'd definitely check that first to make sure it's correct , I'm sure you could look it up in some manuals.
Cheers
Max.
