G'day MM ,Norm and Mf,
Before I resort to doing a wood turning bodge like speedy did in another wheel replacement thread (Big Red) any suggestion for some other wheels which might get me running this weekend. Have't looked at old Victa's yet, they are in another shed.
3 ways to make wheels fit other mowers is to weld the stub axles on from another mower or drill the centre of a wheel out to
fit larger axles and the third way is to make a sleeve fit the axle with the outside of the sleeve fitting the wheel centre.
When I was primary school age, I would make wheels fit my billy carts by using a bolt through the wheel with a nut tightened
up on both sides of right angle steel ,I have seen some mowers where people have fitted wheels the same way but they
just drill out the old axles.
I've had lots of mowers that I just used old barbecue wheels as they had small centres standard and would easily drill to
whatever axle size I liked. If your front wheels are a different size to the rear and you increase the size of the original
rear wheels you just measure the old rear wheel size then work out the percentage you have increased the new rear
wheels to and then increase the size of the fronts to the same percent as the backs were increased to.
Some of the Chondas are not too bad the Sanli are reasonable the V40's can't say I have had much to do with them but I am trying to clear out all the Chonda stuff here and I don't intend wasting my time on Chinese rubbish anymore, just junk
I've had tons of V40's and Slani ,I liked them all better than a Briggs Sprint 3.75 Hp , they ran quieter and used less fuel.
The biggest problem I had with the Victa V40 was as soon as I cut long grass the filter would completely block up with grass ,
but I had similar problems with briggs on certain bases so I would always seal up the bottom of the motor to the base
with silastic as this stopped all the grass clogging up the motor and the air filter and the base stayed a lot cleaner.
Cheers
Max.
