Today I am digging out my Briggs parts from the backyard shed to go through....It's "shit or get off the pot" day I am starting with the small displacement ones, I only care about pre 1970 3hp and parts for of course, the rest go to the curb.
I have a 1968 3hp that was original to a Taco thats been in pieces forever. The shroud was pretty nice but the recoil had all the tabs except one that secures the recoil mech broken off it. So I found a 2hp stamped shroud to mess with to see if I could maybe use as a donor for the Taco shroud....started with the 2hp one first since it would just go in the garbage anyway
On the right is the 2hp donor shroud, I just used a grinding disc on an angled die grinder to work the metal down and pop the spot welds, then cleaned the feet off recoil after it was off the shroud. this left face side of the feet undamaged and stock looking still
left is the recoil off the 1968 shroud, I drilled the spot welds through on it so I would have just clean holes under the feet.
Note the weld spots seen in random spots on the shroud were my "test" spots to get my speed and power pretty close......I'm not a great welder and I haven't been working out in the shop for quite a few months so I figured I better practice a little.
after getting the feet of the donor recoil flat and the shroud face smooth I clamped the recoil in the right spot and puddle welded in the holes to secure the recoil to the shroud.
Not the prettiest thing underneath, especially after grinding the high spots down (a real welder would not have had high spots )
On the face side it came out pretty nice, since I didn't drill through the dimples, the fact that Its been repaired wont be noticeable after paint work. Thankfully I didn't burn any holes through or anything like that so prep for paint will be minimal!!!!
I have a 1968 3hp that was original to a Taco thats been in pieces forever. The shroud was pretty nice but the recoil had all the tabs except one that secures the recoil mech broken off it. So I found a 2hp stamped shroud to mess with to see if I could maybe use as a donor for the Taco shroud....started with the 2hp one first since it would just go in the garbage anyway
On the right is the 2hp donor shroud, I just used a grinding disc on an angled die grinder to work the metal down and pop the spot welds, then cleaned the feet off recoil after it was off the shroud. this left face side of the feet undamaged and stock looking still
left is the recoil off the 1968 shroud, I drilled the spot welds through on it so I would have just clean holes under the feet.
Note the weld spots seen in random spots on the shroud were my "test" spots to get my speed and power pretty close......I'm not a great welder and I haven't been working out in the shop for quite a few months so I figured I better practice a little.
after getting the feet of the donor recoil flat and the shroud face smooth I clamped the recoil in the right spot and puddle welded in the holes to secure the recoil to the shroud.
Not the prettiest thing underneath, especially after grinding the high spots down (a real welder would not have had high spots )
On the face side it came out pretty nice, since I didn't drill through the dimples, the fact that Its been repaired wont be noticeable after paint work. Thankfully I didn't burn any holes through or anything like that so prep for paint will be minimal!!!!