Is your other one from the early 80s with the silver chassis and black engine cover and chrome wheel caps with black centres?
Yes, That's the one, great machine. I could also do with a couple of those chrome wheel caps, mine has them all but 2 of them are cracked and in bad nick.
No auto drive system on the older one and busted cable and engine seal on the other!
Do you still have the outer cable? Its not ideal but I bought a new inner brake cable for a tandem bike (heavy duty) on ebay and used that. As long as it has the small barrel type connector on one end, just cut the other end off and Thread the cable from the gearbox up to the black handle an around the pin, double back on itself and use a connector to join the cable. I think I had to grind away the barrel connector a little bit to make it fit properly. I dosent look that pretty at the handle end but it works fine and it's a lot cheaper that the �100+ for the proper replacement (if you can get one that is.!!).
I'm sure there are a few barns and sheds in that vastly populated island of yours with the stuff you require.
"Vastly populated" you are not wrong there mate, this country is completely ruined now thanks to us opening the flood gates to Europe..!! It's a bit late to close our borders now as everyone is already here. You guys had the right idea with a points system for immigration, we just let anyone in, terrorists, murderers, rapists you name it. It will never be the same again, real shame. Getting back on topic though you're right, there must have been massive Victa imports so the parts I'm after should turn up at some stage, I will just have to be patient.
Hi Alan, these Victa 2 strokes are by far the best mower engine ever made world wide, no reason why many of them could not see out a hundred years of service
I totally agree NormK, the full stroke 160 and 125's are superb engines. The alloy high arch mowers with the full stroke engines are bomb proof, the steel base models don't take kindly though to our lets say "damper climate".
