Old 9hp briggs

[Micscience]

I was curious what you guys think of this buy? The guy says it ran before it was removed from the generator or power washer. However he seemed eager to sell it. It's old and rusty but his craigslist ad is asking $50 I was looking at this to run a 2 seater go kart if anyone with pointers could give me a tip please do. Thanks

 

[jamyers]

Yow, that's one rusty old Briggs! Looks like a keyed shaft instead of threaded, which is good...

I'd absolutely want to see it run, if it's good all it should need is a jerry-rigged fuel tank and a pull.

Then I'd bring along my compression tester, once it warmed up I'd pull the sparkplug and get a reading - anything over 75-80psi I could live with.

Stray thoughts: Rope starter engines can wear your arm out if they're acting up, but I'd bet you could upgrade to a recoil starter...undoubtedly it's old enough to use points ignition, which means you're going to want to pull the blower housing and flywheel to at least check and probably replace the points and condenser...and that carb is going to need a GOOD cleaning and likely a rebuild kit (aka new gaskets)...and there's just no telling about the condition of the piston rings, cylinder walls, valves, etc until you do the above and get it running...

IMHO, unless it truly does start in 3-5 pulls, idles and runs up smoothly, and has passable compression; $50 is high. If it does all that, then $50 is a fair deal.

 

[Micscience]

Thanks! that was a good explanation. I'm wondering if parts are available for this engine since it's old. I'm not to familiar with small engines and if there is a big aftermarket parts industry. I'm probably going to check it out and if it don't run I'll probably offer him $20 bucs.

There was one other engine I was looking at the guy said it came off a power washer and it needs a side plate but it looks fairly clean and new. The AD says vertical shaft but it's actually a horizontal shaft. Here is the ad.

 

[jamyers]

Not sure what they mean by "needs a side plate", looks like the crank side of the crankcase is there from the pics... maybe for a pressure washer, but not for a kart.

I'd think $40 for that is a deal! Need a gas tank, though...

 

[Micscience]

well the side plate he said was a piece that attached the power washer to the engine and now there are for holes into the block/crankcase that need to be plugged somehow not sure if they are threaded or not though. Going to check it out as soon as I can thanks

 

[landuse]

If they are threaded, just put some bolts through them with some loctite