Hi guys, sorry for the delayed reply. been doing 15 hour days this whole week... wake up, work, sleep, repeat. joys of coming to the silly season!
Thanks for the posts, and i think Jack might be on to something there espicially since it had the 260 on the wildcat I see what Mowerfreak and Maxwestern are showing with the different cowling tiers. Thankyou for showing them
From re lookin at newspaper ads, the matador Tyler mentioned looks like it had a full sticker on front of mower (see where the white is) so it could be that still but the 260 jack showed, looks like it has the most revelance
I got some photos of my Silverstreak 83. Shes not in the best shape, but, best mower ive ever used. Dad bought it second hand in 96, which we used heavily to cut an almost half acre block. (used to take me a good half a day to do!) eventually dad bought a 4 stroke masport maybe in 2002, and i continued to used this silverstreak over the masport as i felt like it didnt bog down as much as the masport if the lawn was abit long, plus the masport catcher used to give me the sh!ts!, dropping all the time. So when I moved out, dad ended up giving me the 83 silverstreak, i ended up doing piston and rings in it about 8 years ago, and has been brilliant since, and my god can does she rev!, like shes going to take off! Just lately a little carby issues but now i got all the parts to redo carby. Only other thing it has, while cutting the lawn, the height adjustment will jump. I need to check why its doing this.
But overall the catcher is brilliant on the silverstreak.. it never and i mean never falls off. Good solid mower, apart from dad having to rivet an aluminium plate:D. This is why i cant let go of it and continue to repair it:)
Mowerfreak, "Does it have a good catcher? They were the weak point as well as erosion of the base in extremely sandy soil and damage from striking rocks and stones." For which mowers had these common issues? Was this the silverstreak issues or the 87 series issues?
