OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums Finding and Swapping Rare Finds & Donations VC Auto Drive Rubbish find

Hey all found this one a few weeks ago in a scrap pile fired up on the second pull ripper ! shame the auto drive is disconnected looks like the gears that drive the wheels have been cut off ? Ty ? anyone know ? cheers guys

Im not sure how hard it is to get the gears off but I will be scrapping a power plus self propelled in the next few weeks, the gears should be the same

are they anything like a 550 ? wrecking one here too . most bits left still

you may find a few people trying to buy that mower off you, Id say with the little i know its one vrey rare mower! well done looks in great shape too....

just mowed the lawns ran like a dream id love to get the self propelled side of things going
its in fairly good condition although the plastic cowl is missing the edge at the front where the front 3 screws go to hold it to the base

hey guys can you have a look at the drive axle on your mowers and tell me if the shaft has been cut to get the gear off i dont think its meant to look like that ?

You lucky bast@#$t I've been trying to get that same model for over 12 months now.All I have is a base and dead and broken cowl.I have the other 3 Auto drives but not that one.You'd better take care of it or I'll be on your door to pick it up.Don't know why I don't have any of the luck.Oh well enjoy it.Wish I could find one.

Hey Blumbly
you wouldnt believe i almost left it but i knew you guys would never let me live it down id love to restore it but the cowl is going to be half the fight the back of the starter is damaged and the front under the vc 160 sticker at the front .

The starter will be the harder part to fix as it is the green one.Cowl is fixable just have to use some fibre glass to fix it.It has done the same on the cowl I have,but my one is much worse.If I can't find the rest of the mower then I won't bother to fix it.I guess I'll see what happens in the future.

i was thinking of getting a paint matched to the cowl and just painting a standard white starter but first things first i need to get the sself propelled handle and cable, belt ect.

any VC cowl will do they are all the same only thing is the green paint and you could get that easy from a good paint shop its only fibre glass....as for the rest looks in top nick,a even a better light green starter will show up one day if your on the look out for one...id say you have one of the harder VC's out there to find and don't they know it haha... good luck holding out with the offer's you will get from the VC collectors ...cheers

Well painting a white one will be the best way,to hard finding another green one.Sorry can't help you with parts.I only have enough parts to fix the auto drives I have.I really need to find myself another one or two just for parts.

Thats fine as ill hold off on the restro until i find the right bits and stickers and all that going to do it right if at all , ill get the handle and all those bits re chromed.
I must say im surprised we havent heard from Ty i sent him a Pm saying id up loaded the pics he asked for .
the scrap place this came from is over the back fence of where i used to live have got a few good victa's there

Yes we just moved from Canberra and was staying at Ty's and last week he had move as well.I know he hadn't finished that so I'm guessing they are finishing that off this weekend.Oh plus I believe he has a new woman as well.I know I'm still waiting for a return phone call back from Thursday night.Anyway I guess we just have to wait.

Just went to my box of victa books that my Great uncle left me when he passed away just answered some questions i had i must say ,

Yes that book will help with that.

I do believe i sent Ty home with a spare diff for one of those.


I think there is just a gear that slips on over the shaft and it has a flat metal tab that goes in the slot.


Something like that.

Dont get too impatient.
Keep an eye out for antoher one to help with the restore. You need the cable and handle and im tipping you will need to buy a whole mower to get them. You might be able to get a new replacement cable but i doubt you would get the handle.


Bob.

Yes that's right Bob but that spare one went on an Auto Drive that I had that had gear box problems.So it has been used.

I do indeed have a spare Diff here, and a few other parts, some have been promised to someone else, but have not heard from him in quite some time, so maybe they will go to you If I can't get hold of him (I think I have the control lever too)

I will pop up some diagrams of those drive gears, from memory they are not interchangeable with the drive gears of the 550.

If you can get a full list together of what you don't have (once I have given you the diagrams of coarse) that would be really good, as i can see how much of it I can get together for you.

Don't you go giving my stuff any now.

hey Ty
have got a 550 gear box coming my way at the moment will soon see if they are similar.
only need the end gears so we will see.
think the hardest part is the handle. i do believe the gear box is in working condition at this stage
cheers,mitch

If not let Ty know I know he's got parts I just want the drive cable off one that I left with him,not the gear box.

what type of handle do they have , a bar or just the lever ?

The vc160 autodrive pictured at the top of this thread should have a bar to operate theself propelled funtion.

thanks joe , so he will still be looking for one ! i gotta find one of these one day

He should have the same one as yours as I had one I left there as it wasn't complete.All I want off it is the handle lever(cable).It didn't have a gear box,but I know that he has some.

so i take it the 550 is a wider axle too ? as well as different gearbox , lever , cable ?

I think so,but I haven't played with a 550 myself.I think they are silty bigger,so it could (and don't quote me)possibly not fit.Sorry I can't give you any more than that as I really don't know.

oh well we are going to experiment a bit then, if the 550 parts are unsuitable ill just pass them on, if someone is chasing them will see how we go.

Ive got that 550 here and theres soemthing wrong with its gearbox.

Ive also been chasing a SP505 and i would assume it could use the same gearbox.


Im in no hurry.



I would like to know about the drive dogs. If the SP power plus and the 550 & 505 use the same ones.