Still working on the Dear John. Its almost done now. I ran all new fuel lines and cleaned the carb. No spark the coil was bad. Swapped it out. It had no muffler i put one on from a 2 cyl and welded up the extra hole and made mounts for it. Also there was no pulleys on the engine. It takes an electric pto luckily it came with it. But no drive pulley so I cut off the top pulley from from a dual pulley off another engine and got the mess bolted up. There was some monkeying of the tensioning pulleys involved. There are so many loose and missing bolts on this thing. I keep finding more. The brake wasnt working so i took it all apart and freed up the pins. Bolt broke off in the trans i tapped it out. I had to adjust the brake rod by bending it but it works good now. So its all running and driving now I just have to put the hood on but it hits the muffler a bit when opening so ill have to make some adjustments there. Next is the mower the deck the spindles were rusted up i got them loose but they are still stiff.
