Recent content by flyer91

Tom, It has a diode cut-out, will this still be OK to try the bypass? Ron, Yes, it is a steel back (170-A). As I understand it, the production figures for it, were thrown in with the 60 series. The stamping on the driver's side firewall is 8 14 29. I'm not sure why, but I'm also thinking...

Thanks for all the help guys. It started right up on the first try! I let it idle for a bit, checked that the brakes were working right and then my wife and I took it for a little drive around the roads in our local neighborhood. It ran well and climbed the steep hills with no problem...

Thanks Mike, I'll be sure to check/do as recommended. I'm in a holding pattern until the local NAPA store can get the filters up here from Fresno. Coarsegold is a small "one stop light" town in the Sierra mountains (close to the south entrance to Yosemite) and the local NAPA store does not...

Thanks Tom, I'll be sure to polarize the generator (I would not have though to do that if you had not mentioned it). I had installed a fuel filter in the sediment bowl and as well as flushing the tank I'll stop at the local NAPA store and get a new filter (it looks like it's well past being...

Hi folks, I'm new to this forum and just wanted to say hello to you all, and pose a question or two. I have a 29 Briggs Body "Blind Back", 170A that I bought in 1990. I've always been under the impression that this particular model A is fairly rare version of the model A's and...