OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums Restoring, Customising and Modifying Victa Walk-Behind Rotary Mowers Victa Mustang 160cc powerplus

Looks wicked as. Very nice mower

Ready for the show room floor, straight to the pool room with that one.

We have ignition! fired 3rd pull what a sweet mower to use lots of power and its not even run in yet...Even my Chooks approve! haha

now a wash before the poolroom ! great job , good the chooks like it too

Darn you got it all dusty.

Not really into this model a bit to new for me,but hey you've done a very good job.Well done,oh except for the chickens of course.Now you could have chicken poo in the carby.Well done it looks great before using it that is.

Looking a little 2nd hand now haha ...I have got a few hrs up on the Mustang now, and its not missed a beat...Time for some new blades im in Granite County its very sandy and hard on blades....Cheers Chris

G'day all.. Some time has passed since I did the Mustang and in that time Ive worked it hard and it's not missed a beat that is until just recently...It has been losing power slowly the last few times Ive used it, to the point of it has no power now but still runs just!.....
So I went looking as to why? thinking maybe fuel side things I gave the tank/carby a good clean out but it all looked fine as did the air filter, sparkplug was not giving that much away to me apart from not that great of a burn being a little oily but nothing major as in dripping with oil or white from running lean....As I was refitting the carby I spied the decompression valve so gave the hose a suck and bingo! I just got air could not pull the valve up...
I did not change the valve just yet as I prefer the process of elimination one thing at a time so just to be sure it was not the fuel side of things and after about 15 pulls it fired up and was no better so next thing to do is change out the valve (ran out of daylight today)...oh yeah I found a new tenant had moved in as well lol...Cheers

Not that it is the problem but the plug is wrong. Nice spider though. The best spider I found was a huge redback. Can't love em!

All fixed and back to full power the valve was leaking bad... I was just going to put a power torque valve on but they dont fit, so had to go looking at my full crank 160's for a good long reach decompression valve oh well its going now and back to work for it even gave the old girl a wash...
Christo the spark plug is what my mower shop gave me saying this is the plug I have to run now Victa said so or some crap lol.....

Hi Chris,

Great to see you got the prob sorted mate, and that it is running as before....Just a question, what is the number on the plug that the mower place says Victa told you to run?
All good stuff!

Here ya go Deejay the numbers for the plug...My mower place is a shocker its all about selling you a new mower when I go in trying to get parts they try to hunt me from the shop saying Im wasting my time and will never get whatever old mower it is Im working on going lol.....

Hi Chris,

That's why we like you on board here mate, I will do some research for you and report back next week. I would like to get to the bottom of this plug business....
All good stuff mate!

G'day Chris and Deejay,
Chris, could I ask what carby jet you sorted out for this machine?

Deejay, did you ever manage to find out about the plug?

Hi Bushie, the jet for this carby should be the plain faced one.
It's the one on the far right.

The stock jet has worked fine Bushie...but last time I used the Mustang seems I have a problem but as yet have not had time to look at it but I suspect a blown head gasket ..oh the joys of old mowers lol

That's good news Bigted and Chris, both my Power Plus's have the plain topped jet.