Craig C
The tractor did have a deck and sub frame on it. I hate decks, other than the one I'm using, and normally don't take them if I don't have to, and I gave this one to the guy that found the tractor for me <font size="-2">he told me later the bearings were rather noisy, and full of sand</font>. The recoil unit was missing from the engine, and the spool for the rope from the original one had been bolted to the front of the top pulley and used as a "wind-a-rope" type starter.
The original condenser was missing and it had an external condenser mounted on the side of the engine and spliced into the wire going to the points. Don't know how they shut it off when it was running, the mag kill wire going to the ignition switch was disconnected from the switch and had tape wrapped around the wire terminal/end, although the air filter was so clogged up with oily dirt/sand, that it may not have ever run after the wire was taped up. The tractor had supposedly been sitting in a barn for several years. I used the condenser and recoil unit from a extra engine that I got with a pull start Original I bought last year.