Jeff, I'm guessing the motor had too much oil in it for it to be pumping it up the breather hose, I guess they just go in the dumpmaster.
MF, I sold one of those 400 Gardenlines to an older bloke last week but it is too heavy for him to pull start, so I am putting a PT together for him at the moment. As for fitting a long shaft PT to a Gardenline, firstly you have to find the long shaft motor, they are probably about 5% of the PT's I get, then you have to drill the base to take the PT and also put a step in the height adjuster to go around the outside of the headBetter off just keeping the wheels and dumping the rest, but then the wheels don't even fit a Victa because the axle diameter is 14.8mm