Thanks for that Mowerfreak and Tyler, yes it's had a hard life it's a tough old mower that's for sure. Yes those wheels are original from factory on this mower, I have removed and re-greased the shafts on them quite a few times over the years...lol When I had the engine rebuilt I also changed every rubber seal on the engine and also the carby inlet seals and it also got a brand new genuine Victa decompressor years ago. Even after all that it still had a fast idle and after I added those 2 brass washers in the carby as was mentioned on here years ago it fixed the idle speed perfectly. The carby still has the original internal parts including rubber diaphragm from factory. All I have changed is the primer cap,float,needle and jet with new items. Even these I was changing them out years ago thinking that they were affecting the fast idle speed. In the end I probably didn't need to change all them out but it runs great now anyway.
I noticed those wheels on your Victa Charger there Mowerfreak, I looked at the catalogue in the link below and it seems the Charger in the brochure has the older style wheels on it like the one's on my Commando. But back then they were fitting these wheels to the powertorque mowers and also brochures could have been printed long before the production run of that mower and they would have probably just fitted what they had available on the production line at the time. Hey notice the picture of the new powertorque engine in the brochure it seems they had moulded a clear see through carby housing for the marketing of the new powertorque engine, and you can see they have mounted the primer cap on upside down as you can see the white float sitting at the top side of the carby and also the primer bulb is on the opposite side.
Also speaking about the great movie releases from back in 1982, what about all the great music from 1982 and also that era. One great song from 1982 that I remember would have to be "Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor", could be a song for old the Victa Commando I reckon..lol Also another great song from that year was "Eye In The Sky - The Alan Parsons Project", you know I always wonder why they never ever seem to play this song on the radio anymore, not on the oldies station or on the new hit stations...? lol
Last edited by Converse; 16/05/1901:11 PM.
Zip a dee doo dah, zip a dee ay, another trash picked Victa, hip hip Hooray!
