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Please help to determine vintage BS model?

Looks like a 5 HP to me....... There are 3 sets of numbers on that black air shroud.... Either on top or one the side that faces the tank..

Post those and we can tell you what year and way more info on that beast.....

Model
Type
Code

This Manual mightcome in handy .....

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6NaqjIxWV1yeVdtMUNaTzlpWmc/view

Boo I looked at that link and I don't think his engine is that old.... His is a 70's model.... The B model would be right before that production engine.....

Looks to me like a 60000 series Briggs build in the late 60’s or early 70’s. Horsepower 3.5 or 5. Not that old, I actually worked on one very similar last week mount on a rototiller.

Thanks Boobala.

Is that model number 92302 ?? That is a 1978 Briggs..........

Or 132 ?????

Rivet's ... The main reason I myself didn't say a 60000 series is because the choke is a dead giveaway.... The 60000 chokes go sideways instead of up and down....

That bigger tank also tells a story.... If they haven;t been changed of course...........

Plus Tard Mon Ami ~!~!

You are right, but that carb and tank can be used on the 60000, 80000, and 90000 series engines. It was one way we used to increase hp on the 3.5 hp engines. That was before we would sand heads, punch jets, and restrict airhorns to increase power. Even built one of these. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AMsXKkIuaPg

Those numbers refer to a 3 1/2 hp vertical shaft engine which mine is clearly not. Obviously somebody has swapped covers.

Rivets said:

You are right, but that carb and tank can be used on the 60000, 80000, and 90000 series engines. It was one way we used to increase hp on the 3.5 hp engines. That was before we would sand heads, punch jets, and restrict airhorns to increase power. Even built one of these. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AMsXKkIuaPg

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Yes you can increase the HP for a 60000 by putting the carb from a bigger engine that's how Briggs did a 2 hp to 2 1/2 HP actually...... The 60000 had a vacu jet carb and the bigger 8 and 9 series had a pulsa jet carb.........

I will check your video out also.......

It looks like a 3 hp model 80202.

Look at that 8 or 9 number closely on the shroud not the picture and let us know....

I do know that the year is 1978.......

If you can come up with any numbers, this might be helpful, or you can ( lonnnng process ) check through these parts manuals and try to match it up ..... folks out there don't realize why we ask for an engine's identification number's, there's so many models of the same basic engine and the difference's although sometimes subtle, means all the difference in supplying the correct info.

http://www.mymowerparts.com/pdf/Briggs-&-Stratton-Parts-Manuals-IPL/

The very FIRST one ......... might be a close match ..???

ALSO... https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6NaqjIxWV1ycG8wd0s3Z2Q2X00/edit