Obviously the shorter shaft makes it a lot harder to bend the crankshaft.
Well id say it would not make a hell of a lot of difference if you had a crank boss adapter to get the blade disc/bar down to where a long shaft would be, its still leverage. Somethings gotta give.
I think there was actually 3 different lengths.
I just measure from the face of the casing, the correct measurements are from the mounting flange.
Something like,
1 7/8ths for victa
2.5" for masports some old rovers and morrisons.
3" for most everything else.
The other way round you can space the motor up.
Victa even did that with some of the forward facing silver sprint motors.
Tough call on the new motor.
If it were me, i would just go find a sub $40 Victa, fix it and use it till it dies. Catchers arent that bad.
Bob.
