Hey Ty
Those mowers use to have a plastic cover that went over the top of the mower engine. Those brackets on the rear of the motor are the remains of the cover, they use to tilt back to allow access to the motor.
They had brown plastic covers on those brown 460 series mowers and black plastic covers on the earlier blue 8-04 model mowers.
I will see if I can upload a picture of one of them.
Over here in NZ all of the 1970's - 1980's mowers with those 3.5hp and 4hp motors had the engine control on the motor - it was standard.
Also a company called lawmnmaster here in NZ had a similar cover over the engine with controls on the motor.
Those bodies are very well made at the mower shop where I work heaps of those mowers still come in for services with the bodies still in great condition.
Cheers
Last edited by VC Victa; 06/08/11 11:16 AM. Reason: correct spelling
