OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums Finding and Swapping Tip & Curb Side Finds My hard rubbish part 5

Hi only went out for a couple of hours today.Will hit it harder tomorrow.Here is what I did find in my couple of hours.





I do have a question with this one.The fins on this are larger and further apart from a normal power torque.Why? Also there is no decompression valve.The head has no hole at all for it.Dose anybody know why?



This is for a Honda, catcher bag thingie.Does anybody need one? I have no use at all for this.I don't have a Honda.

Thefins are further apart as that is the later chinese type powertorque, still assembled here I belive but cast overseas.

And they did release a few without the decompression valve, just to cut costs on the budget model.

However, it does remove the decompression valve as something to go wrong, and the ones without it can be really gutsy little ones, so i tend to scrap the cheap Chinese ones, and keep the heads for other ones.

I actually kept a chinese one for my mowing runs this year, I generally kill a old macgine every season doing 3-4 lawns a week in extreme heat, odd angles and mowing over months of growth. I will see how it tolereates it, my powertorqe from last year was an australian unit, ran perfect after a service and I sold it.

OK cool thanks guys I thought that was the case,I just need to read it from somebody else.Just to make sure.So are they better engines or worse that the normal everyday power-torque?

If you get a good one I find they are great, a lot suffered from premature failure of conrods and such. This is my opinion, most people despise of the chinese motors though.

I didn't realize there was such a viable different's,but I could see the different's even before it went into the trailer.So if your happy with that one.I could make that one of them for our deal.As I know I won't be needing that one.

the old utility has me a little stumped, I think it must be a home-job.

I cant think of any model with that base, a plastic carby, a front mount tank, and an impulse starter!

Well yes there in this type,but I'm not sure it had the same carby as this one.Also I couldn't work out either about the impulse starter gear on it either.So although that picture is how it would have started live I agree something has changed.

The one in that picture looks to have a G3 carby, and clearly has a Zip starter, also, it has a one-peice dress & cooling cowl, whitch does not have a black cooling cowl under it.

The black cowl on yours would suggest a plastic cowl on top, like a vc sports, but i cant think of any combination of these parts that involves an impulse starter.

Perhaps somebody has put that on it.I was thinking it have been more of a VC-Mustang motor.One where somebody has put the impulse starter cup on it.

The black cowl & G4 carby match this utility:



However the base is from the one you have added just above!

As for the starter, I cant recall any utility that was released with an impulse starter, and I cant find one in any of my files either!

Yes well I guess I'd be right then in saying somebody has added it on.As for the motor who knows what happen to the original one.Hey it came from Mossy Point who knows what they get up to there.

Do you know it's serial?

1275312533 the head on it looks exactly like a VC-160 Mark II & III head.Doesn't have the casting of the later VC-Mustang heads.

1975 Engine, I'm pretty sure that base was gone by 75, and the impulse starter certainly was not in use, I have a feeling that the G4 on this should have a primer-less grey face traditionally, but then again, this mower is anything but original.

Yes well that's true to.There was no carby with it,and certainly no primer on it either.It almost looks like somebody started converting it and then gave up.It even has the bracket on the right hand side to hang the tank off.I'd say the conversion was never completed.Probably didn't know where to put the tank,to start with.

you may be right, the cowl suite the engine date though, so I imagine this engine was original to the cowl and tank, as well as the carby.

I'm guessing, maybe, this base made it into the 75 production run, and originally looked abit likt the white one above, but with this base.

Then at some point, the starter has busted, and the owner has made modifications to fit an impulse starter, either becase they hafd one spoare, or prefer them.

Then eithter when they chucked it, or in the lead up, it was stripped for parts.

I imagine the alterations needed to the mower to fit an impulse to this would be to do away with the cowl, and use a peice of tin from the front starter mounts, to secure the top of the tank.

I don't know,but I do think this motor has come from another mower.As why would you have the tank hanging from the right hand side.As when these where made the tanks were on the front and supported by the cowl.So I would say this motor was from some kind of VC,not sure what model.I guess the project was stopped due to problems involving,like where does the tank go now?I guess there thought was what cowl,we won't have one now.

That cowl also acepts front mounts, hence the two slots in the front of the cowl.

If you take that bracke resting near the wheel, it should fit into one of the slots in the front, there would have been 2 brackets.

Oh well either way I think it's safe to say that this is the wrong motor.Now I need to find the right motor and right cowl.As I did want one of these.I was looking at one that was in Brisbane.Now don't need to.

Let me have a dig around, It may well be the right motor, just the wrong starter!

Yeah but I'm going to need the cowl and all sorts of things

That cowl is an easy find, and a standsrd G4 will be all you need for the carby.

Oh ok then well that's ok then

I may even have a cowl, starter cup, carby and tank here for you!

Gees your a good lad.I'm have to stop spreading all those rumours about you.[Censored] did I just type that?

Oh, is this why people keep accusing me of being a witch doctor?

I have had a look, and I am starting to think that engine and base were indeed born together.

That properly why.Maybe you are right.I'm not sure.

OK then after day 2 wow what a day.Found lot's more goodies.Funny how a different area found only electric wiper snipers.Don't want any of those,so left them there.Besides that there are 2 guys running around and cutting all the power cords of all the electrical items.Also collecting metal and some mowers,(Mongrels)there only doing it to make money.I don't like that,don't think they should be allowed to do it for money.Hey I'm not.There are some good things out.Found some electrical items with signs saying they work,but these mongrels have cut the cords off.Makes it harder for somebody who can't fix them.What happen to recycle.You can't with theses guys trying to make money from it.It's just wrong.Sorry it just gives me the pips.There's just nothing that can be done about it.


This one I was happy with.Seen one on eBay last week was going to go for it and take the win.I'm glad I didn't now.Would have only ended up with two.







This one has my dogs approval.I think she thinks it will go.

If anyone see's something they would like,by all means let me know.I would be happy to make deals with you.Would prefer just to swap for other mowers of course. Especially with the four strokes,not a real four stroke fan.About the only one I don't think I'll part with is the purple VC-Sports.Sorry but I do like that one.