Hi again,
Thanks for your replies.
I'll get some more photos put up later tonight, I'm in Perth so you will probably be either tinkering in the shed late at night or tucked up in bed when I do so.
I'll be restoring the Briggs and keeping as a show piece. I rarely see them in silver. The PO drilled through the Scottie clutch and crank resulting on the crank spindle breaking off leaving jus 1/2" left so a new crank is already on the shopping list. I'll create a rebuild thread for the briggs, it will be my first engine rebuild. Following that I'll do another thread for the original Tecumseh on my other mower.
Regards
Tony.