Jon's Busted Knuckle Garage

Newer Engine from old mower for Simplicity

Since the Simplicity has a bad exhaust valve I needed a replacement 8 HP Brigs and Straton vertical shaft motor. It happens my neighbor had an old mower with a bad starter.

Now I jsut need to pull the motor off the junk mower and mount the starter off the current engine. I just hope pulling the pulley off the shaft's of the respective motors will not be that hard.

In fact I think this motor is a "better" motor that the one on the Simplicity - it is an I/C cast iron and I think the original motor is cast iron sleeved at best. I do not think this motor is 31 years old but a replacement maybe 15 -20 years old.

Wish me luck.

posted by Jon at Homer @ 11:33 PM