Thread: old victa 2strokes

You may be surprised at what you can get from a dealer. Not Victa, but I have had no issues getting parts for a 25yr old Husqvarna rideon and a 30 year old Rover Colt. Although in both cases parts had to be ordered in.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

You may be surprised at what you can get from a dealer. Not Victa, but I have had no issues getting parts for a 25yr old Husqvarna rideon and a 30 year old Rover Colt. Although in both cases parts had to be ordered in.

I was able to get bits for an old Victa 18 toecutter.

Sticking or missing governor? It's been 40 years since I last had a Victa, not missing it.

Originally Posted by johntins

I was able to get bits for an old Victa 18 toecutter.

That is my favorite mower,..Victa Special 18", green in color with rotary height adjustment & removable bottom ring,....one of them in original condition is worth big dollars......and yep, they do go through anything!
Pickles.

Originally Posted by bee utey

Sticking or missing governor? It's been 40 years since I last had a Victa, not missing it.

Thanks guys

after pulling it apart. it appears the carby diaphragm controls the governer. This is new. I think there has to be an air leak somewhere. I'm going to hit google and see if I can find an exploded parts diagram to see if there should be an Oring in the top.

Victa 2strokes are the gruntiest mower made... bloody brilliant! I wouldn't be without it. It does everywhere the tractor and ride on can't get (they are great for edging around trees and under decks etc... the low profile deck fits under them, the deck also has a cuttout for edging (I've had it eat my cloths before ... that''s how close I'm come to bein g grabbed by the blades

I had a even earlier Victa 600 was a imperial version. That I found you could not get parts for any more. Great motor when you got the mongrel to run and the noise it produced would have been similar to a jet. So a Miller falls engine was fitted and that was a good cheap motor. Self governing which took some getting used to. Ran oh so quiet, you could talk next to it and when you started cutting it would auto increase the revs, but was still a quiet motor. So that would be a option. I did have to make a adapter plate that the motor bolted to and then picked up the the slide tension slots in the mower. Dead simple to do. I think the plate was about 10mm from memory.
Cheers Hall

No way .... I would never get rid of the mighty 2stroke !!!! That thing has serious balls. It will cut ANYTHING. Every 4stroke I've ever used just dies in the arse and frustrates you to tears at the first sign of long grass. The 2strokes just open the governors and scream.... If the grass is so long you can't push the mower onto it ... you just pivot over that big back wheels and drop the deck down onto the grass. Like I said ... cut anything. I'd never, ever replace that incredibly noisy, thirsty .... but amazingly grunty little 2stroke ... no way.

You can still buy these mowers new. I"ve looked, and looked.... there is no option that allows for a proper 2stroke. So I'm simply not interested. Not only are the 4strokes big and heavy .... they would be too gutless for such a legendary mower

MSP606 Mastercut 600

they might not be a bargain. But you'd never wear it out in your lifetime

I just found a big Oring on the shed floor ... so that answers the question of if it should have an Oring in the top of the motor!

seeya,
Shane l.

The plastic carby from memory has two springs one each side of the rubber diaphragm, one is longer than the other and when reassembling to the novice its easy to put in wrong, the long one goes in the end with the lesser space also check the wear on the governor linkages.

Hodgo