I got the good old Victa Commando full crank out of hibernation today for a run in the backyard. I think it's been sitting around for 6 months. The last time I used this mower I used Penrite 2 stroke mineral based oil in the mix and there was some still left near the bottom of the fuel tank. Problem was after sitting so long it actually looked more like a brown sludge mix. First thing I did was to empty the tank of that sludge and put some fresh 2 stroke mix in it. I am now back to running Castrol 2 stroke mineral based oil in the mix again.
It took probably 3 attempts and quite a few primer bulb presses to get it going, it ran then stopped. Tried again and it ran fast for a bit then it smoothed out and went back to normal running. It's a tough old beast this one!
I captured some video of it at a slow lumpy tick over idle, then fast revving before turning the fuel tap off to stop it.
Zip a dee doo dah, zip a dee ay, another trash picked Victa, hip hip Hooray!
