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Called into the tip for a look today picked up a 5hp horizontal Briggs & Stratton an old Victa with a 3.5 briggs and also an old 160 2T Victa Corsair for parts and a few bits and bobs all for under 20 bucks....Must have been briggs week as there was about 5 old Victas with briggs on them...I picked out the oldest most crapy looking one as far as I could tell...The numbers- 5hp (130232 0888-01 80013007)and for the 3.5hp(92908 1482-01 76061708) Few pics cheers Chris

The 4 stroke is most likely a victa impala ( I know they were sold under many names) I have 2 of these, one is pretty good, the other is pretty ordinary....

Glad you can hold yourself back, when I go to the tip, I load up anything and everything I have an interest in

LOL dont worry Joe I know what your talking about and yes its hard not to take them all home haha...But I only pick out the few here and there that I think I can use as I only bring a mower home if I think it will do up and I can mow with it not that I need anymore ,have to many as it is! [Censored] Ive got way to many Victa 2T's all fueled up ready to mow (definitely some kind of disorder!) haha...I dont sell mowers or anything but one day with more time on my hands id like to do that (one day maybe?)..

I agree with Joe, if that one with the 92908 Briggs just had a sticker on the angled bit of the snorkel adapter on the carburetor, and that sticker showed a deer and the words "Impala 4", it would be pretty clear what it is. It's even the right colours, and it looks like the right catcher. The Briggs is probably dated 1976 or soon after that. Nice mower, with a bit of a tidy-up. Second model Impala 4.

Gave this mower a good degrease and clean up,cleaned set/points cleaned out fuel tank and carby new blades and oil change its ready to mow my yard....Found a pic of the Impala you were talking about grumpy,this one has V156 on the air filter..Cheers Chris

Looks great,

Can you take a picutre of the airfilter box please, I need a cap and am wondering which one exactly I need.

Also it looked like it was burning a bit of oil in the first pic, has it improved with a service?

Mick

G'day mick here are the pics

The black was just soot from a very bad tune and running very rich,Ive done some mowing with it and doesn't seem to burn oil or blow any smoke at all runs good for such an old mower still has the same spark plug as when I got it ,here is a short vid of it running..cheers Chris

Runs well

Thanks for the pic

Cheers mick

G'day guys picked up two Victas with briggs on them.... There was a few victa power torques at the tip and a fair few newer looking 4ts that I know nothing about on this tip call in....The two I got are nothing special but will keep my curiosity with briggs and stratton going for the time being :)if nothing else the Rapier has good wheels and i'm always on the lookout for nice condition wheels lol...Cheers Chris