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Hello all. I just finished up another refurbish on an old engine. This engine is badged Pincor, but was manufactured by Briggs. These were used on Pincor reel mowers, and had a large 2 speed gear box mounted to the engine. While Pincor did make their own engine, its thought that later in production they used a few of these briggs engine. I got this engine a couple years ago, but it was damaged badly in shipping due to the previous owner doing a terrible job of packaging it, before sending it to me.   It made me so mad, I put it on the shelf, and didn't touch it for the last couple years. The first couple pics below, are the pics of what I supposed to be getting, but trust me, thats not what it looked like when it got to me. The shroud was smashed, a corner of the head was broke, the oil bath filter was missing, and it was just generally beat up from bouncing around inside of a box for 1000 miles. I finally got over it, and gave it the attention it needed. I replaced the missing, or badly broken parts. I then spent some time doing body work on the sheet metal to get it straitened out. The engine got a fresh set of rings, valve job, gaskets, and seals. It runs great now, and looks pretty nice as well. Here is a video, and a few pics. 
 
Matt
 

I said garden, but meant yard, i think a yard is a garden over in England, in Oklahoma and Texas a yard is where you park your boat , truck, camper, 4 wheelers and grill

Thanks, and they're really not to hard to find. Thats not my garden, its just the area behind my shop. I don't know what that is but, its indigenous to this area, and grows everywhere. While we're not in a drought right now, most years we are, and when all the grass dies, this stuff continues living. 
 
Matt

Beautiful job on the Pincor, I don't know how you guys find these old engines. Happy to see someone saving them though. BTW, strange question, what is the ground cover you have growing there in the garden?

Great restoration and pictures . Prompts me to ask what is the history of the use of the Briggs design by the UK's Suffolk Iron Foundary for their 75 and 98 cc cast iron block engines. Was it a licensing agreement or did SIF buy the rights to redundant designs when Briggs moved on to alloy blocks for the smaller capacity engines.
I'm not an engine collector as such but the attached images are of some SIF lumps ready to go onto my small collection of " working classics".

This is something I've been wanting to do for awhile, and I finally did it yesterday. I pulled out all my old Briggs Model N's, as well as a Model U, Model I, and a 6s, and ran ran them all at the same time (22 engines). It was fun, although it was a bit more work than I thought it was going to be. When this many engines are running, its difficult to hear the exhaust note of each engine so that I could get the fuel mixture set correctly on the carburetor. In this video, the newest engine is a 1952, and the oldest is a 1940. There was one engine (my lever start) that I flooded, so it wasn't running in the first video, but I did eventually get it fired, and showed it running in the very short second video. Anyway, here are a couple videos and pics. Thanks
 
Matt
 

 

 
 
 

Hello all. I just finished up another refurbish on an old engine. This engine is badged Pincor, but was manufactured by Briggs. These were used on Pincor reel mowers, and had a large 2 speed gear box mounted to the engine. While Pincor did make their own engine, its thought that later in production they used a few of these briggs engine. I got this engine a couple years ago, but it was damaged badly in shipping due to the previous owner doing a terrible job of packaging it, before sending it to me.   It made me so mad, I put it on the shelf, and didn't touch it for the last couple years. The first couple pics below, are the pics of what I supposed to be getting, but trust me, thats not what it looked like when it got to me. The shroud was smashed, a corner of the head was broke, the oil bath filter was missing, and it was just generally beat up from bouncing around inside of a box for 1000 miles. I finally got over it, and gave it the attention it needed. I replaced the missing, or badly broken parts. I then spent some time doing body work on the sheet metal to get it straitened out. The engine got a fresh set of rings, valve job, gaskets, and seals. It runs great now, and looks pretty nice as well. Here is a video, and a few pics. 
 
Matt
 

Nice work, love the attention to detail and work you do

Well the price seems high, BUT it depends on what it includes, many 85-100 dollar kits don't include the red strip, or the decal for starting on the dash tower, or the lift gauge decal. I'm not sure if Sam makes his decals or gets them from Click it-and-Stick it. I got my last set from Maple Hunter and was very pleased, but they do not have the small FMC logo on the bottom left side of the dash decal like the original decal and I think and Sams and Click it do. The logo is less than 2 centimeters across, so not a real big deal. If you buy a 85 dollar kit from another outfit then add the decals they don't include or you have to buy elsewhere, you go past 200 pretty quick.

Great video's Matt   I struggle with remembering to get petrol for two machines, I'd never stand a chance with twenty

Your doing very nice work there. That's going to be one sharp looking Bolens! 
 
Matt

This is something I've been wanting to do for awhile, and I finally did it yesterday. I pulled out all my old Briggs Model N's, as well as a Model U, Model I, and a 6s, and ran ran them all at the same time (22 engines). It was fun, although it was a bit more work than I thought it was going to be. When this many engines are running, its difficult to hear the exhaust note of each engine so that I could get the fuel mixture set correctly on the carburetor. In this video, the newest engine is a 1952, and the oldest is a 1940. There was one engine (my lever start) that I flooded, so it wasn't running in the first video, but I did eventually get it fired, and showed it running in the very short second video. Anyway, here are a couple videos and pics. Thanks
 
Matt
 

 

 
 
 

Your doing very nice work there. That's going to be one sharp looking Bolens! 
 
Matt

briliant post matt

Hiya Daniel .
Dad has some wonderful engines , I would be proud to just own one of those.
Thanx for the commentary & history of the engines , really interesting.

This is something I've been wanting to do for awhile, and I finally did it yesterday. I pulled out all my old Briggs Model N's, as well as a Model U, Model I, and a 6s, and ran ran them all at the same time (22 engines). It was fun, although it was a bit more work than I thought it was going to be. When this many engines are running, its difficult to hear the exhaust note of each engine so that I could get the fuel mixture set correctly on the carburetor. In this video, the newest engine is a 1952, and the oldest is a 1940. There was one engine (my lever start) that I flooded, so it wasn't running in the first video, but I did eventually get it fired, and showed it running in the very short second video. Anyway, here are a couple videos and pics. Thanks
 
Matt
 

 

 
 
 

This is something I've been wanting to do for awhile, and I finally did it yesterday. I pulled out all my old Briggs Model N's, as well as a Model U, Model I, and a 6s, and ran ran them all at the same time (22 engines). It was fun, although it was a bit more work than I thought it was going to be. When this many engines are running, its difficult to hear the exhaust note of each engine so that I could get the fuel mixture set correctly on the carburetor. In this video, the newest engine is a 1952, and the oldest is a 1940. There was one engine (my lever start) that I flooded, so it wasn't running in the first video, but I did eventually get it fired, and showed it running in the very short second video. Anyway, here are a couple videos and pics. Thanks
 
Matt
 

 

 
 
 

Sounds like a biker gang at a red light

I thought I'd post another project I'm working on. Most of you already know I have a love for the old cast iron Briggs engines, and especially the Model N lineup. There are so many different variations of the Model N, it can make you dizzy. I've been working for years at trying to get as many good examples of the different variations of the Model N as possible. I have acquired yet another one that I didn't have yet. This is a 45 Briggs NR2, and has a 2:1 gear reduction built into the block. It funny, I purchased this believing it was an NR6, which is visually identical to the NR2, and are more much more common the the NR2. It didn't have an id tag, and the seller had no clue what it was, so I was very surprized when it arrived, and the engine rotated twice for every rotation of the pto.  Needless to say I was very pleased, as these are much harder to come by.    
 The engine was in rough shape, but still had lots of potential. Once I opened it up, I found it had a .020 over piston in it, a .010 under crank, and replacement valve guides had been installed. Both the piston, and cylinder looked great, but the rings were wore out. I tried finding .020 piston rings for it, but I never did. Eventually, I found a complete Briggs .020 piston assembly, which came with new rings, so I went that route. The crank, and the .010 undersized rod were in perfect shape, so all was good there. The valve guides were still in decent shape, but the intake valve had already been cut one to many times, so I located a new new valve. I cut both seats, and then lapped the valves back in. I'm currently working on getting it all painted up. This engine should run very well, as it tested at 120 psi on its compression test as you can see in the video below. Thats amazing compression for these old engines! Its magneto is also putting out a very strong spark, as you can see in the video. The OE carb was very corroded, but I had a good rebuildable core on the shelf that I used instead. The original PTO oil seal can no longer be found, but after taking some measurements, I found a modern seal that fit perfectly. 
 I'm very thankful to have other good friends that are Briggs collectors as well. Thanks to Den, a good friend who has a much larger collection than I do, I now have the correct Briggs Type # for this engine, so I can get a new ID tag made. 
I decided to replace this engines original shroud with an identical one thats in far better shape. Aside from the rust, someone had done some horrible welding to the original shroud!   While it could have been repaired, I had one on my spare parts shelf, thats in much better shape, so I took the easy way out! 
 Here are a buch of pics, and a video of where I'm currently at. Thanks
 
Matt 
 
 

This is something I've been wanting to do for awhile, and I finally did it yesterday. I pulled out all my old Briggs Model N's, as well as a Model U, Model I, and a 6s, and ran ran them all at the same time (22 engines). It was fun, although it was a bit more work than I thought it was going to be. When this many engines are running, its difficult to hear the exhaust note of each engine so that I could get the fuel mixture set correctly on the carburetor. In this video, the newest engine is a 1952, and the oldest is a 1940. There was one engine (my lever start) that I flooded, so it wasn't running in the first video, but I did eventually get it fired, and showed it running in the very short second video. Anyway, here are a couple videos and pics. Thanks
 
Matt
 

 

 
 
 

awesome!

Brilliant!

OMG, how long did it take to get that lot out , and put them all away again.
An impressive show Matt

This is something I've been wanting to do for awhile, and I finally did it yesterday. I pulled out all my old Briggs Model N's, as well as a Model U, Model I, and a 6s, and ran ran them all at the same time (22 engines). It was fun, although it was a bit more work than I thought it was going to be. When this many engines are running, its difficult to hear the exhaust note of each engine so that I could get the fuel mixture set correctly on the carburetor. In this video, the newest engine is a 1952, and the oldest is a 1940. There was one engine (my lever start) that I flooded, so it wasn't running in the first video, but I did eventually get it fired, and showed it running in the very short second video. Anyway, here are a couple videos and pics. Thanks
 
Matt
 

 

 
 
 

This is something I've been wanting to do for awhile, and I finally did it yesterday. I pulled out all my old Briggs Model N's, as well as a Model U, Model I, and a 6s, and ran ran them all at the same time (22 engines). It was fun, although it was a bit more work than I thought it was going to be. When this many engines are running, its difficult to hear the exhaust note of each engine so that I could get the fuel mixture set correctly on the carburetor. In this video, the newest engine is a 1952, and the oldest is a 1940. There was one engine (my lever start) that I flooded, so it wasn't running in the first video, but I did eventually get it fired, and showed it running in the very short second video. Anyway, here are a couple videos and pics. Thanks
 
Matt