I built one of those this week for my grandson, I had a base and handles, stripped it down, gave it a sand and a quick coat of paint, scrounged around for all the other bits to build it, now an excellent machine ready for years of work. I explained to my grandson when he picked it up that it had taken me 3 days to get it ready for him. Ok I'm not the fastest anymore but it still takes a lot of hours repairing and making up all the bits and modifying a plastic carby often takes up to 3 hours to get it just right. At the end of the day at least I know that these mowers will work well for years to come, people just don't understand how good they are
I couldn't get the two old Vica metal carbs going , so I fitted a LM I think it is. Just waiting for neighborhood to wake up so I can test it......... speedy
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Hello Nom, I took the small decompressor pipe off the inlet manifold, modified a black plastic flange as shown in pic to pit the fins. Rivited it using the hole from the decompressor. It ran well, very smooth, mowed half the backyard..... I will put the top stuff on the mower. The primer didn't work well so I started it with my Bosch electric dril adaptor..... easy....
And Mowerfreak, I have two Powertorques. They are my favourite Victa because of the unusual desigh, Aussie genius I hope and the power... cheers speedy.
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Hi speedy good effort getting that to fit and seal up, I wouldn't have attempted that, I just swap the barrel and piston for one that has the LM spigot, give it a hone and put in a new set of rings, bit more work than your method
Funny, now it's not working. I was wondering about the seal to manifold. I would like to get original small metal carb going,,,,,, I have one of those big metal carbs, will try that as well...... things don't always work out speedy
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Speedy, I would use silicone inside the carb sleve to seal it up, I assume the plastic sleve is a reasonable fit over the spigot and the silicone will take the heat no worries
I got it going well with the original small metal carb, the one in the 2nd photo in the whole post. I notice the amount of air coming in is so important , and I have to get a proper angle rubber for carb and an air filter...... At the moment I am using a piece of sponge jammed in the pipe and a wire through it to stop it getting sucked into carb, which happened... But happy with result now. speedy
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Now I have put together a 125cc motor and put that on the utility base as I didn't have all the parts for the 160cc motor , now it goes well and is almost complete, plenty of power. AussieTrev gave me a couple of siesed 125 motors and I managed to soak the bores and pistons in molasses and it lifted the rust off, making it easier to take the piston and rings off. Here are a couple of pics, the barrel in 1969, here's the seriel no . cheers speedy
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Now I have put together a 125cc motor and put that on the utility base as I didn't have all the parts for the 160cc motor , now it goes well and is almost complete, plenty of power. cheers speedy
The 125 full crank is probably the best engine Victa ever made. The more I hear about them, the more I believe the 160 was a marketing exercise. Good to see another one reprised.
Ahh, if only victa had kept producing the thumblatch catcher series, they would be in better shape today!
