[gillettadam]

Thankyou all for your replies. I’ll have to have a play with various spacings and methods next year. Seems fairly unanimous to use an inner set of tines of one variety or another which will give a good reduction in width. I do have a set of crop guard tines, both disk and inward turned rotors so might give those a go too to see how I get on.

[gillettadam]

For a 1978 Titan GT with believed original engine the numbers are as follows model 170402 type 1666 – 01 then code is 77092010. Hope this helps if you need to get spares in future

Adam

[gillettadam]

Wristpin, I think that I have attached the brochure that tallies with moggyjim’s machine. I believe that moggyjims machine pre dates the style shown in your brochure. The style in the brochure you showed was being produced from 1983 with some slight differences, so I imagine your brochure must be late 80s or early 80’s? Your suggestion regarding the model type and code is a good one. I have the correct model and type I can upload later on my own 7hp GT.

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I believe, although not an expert that the 7hp briggs is relatively rare in the UK, so you may struggle to find a 7hp cowl and recoil. I am also pretty sure though that the 8hp and maybe even the 9hp has the same size cowl and recoil and that the 8 is much more common in the UK. You might want to wait for someone more knowledgeable than I to confirm this though.

[gillettadam]

Ah, a good buy, I was tempted by this myself on ebay. It is a 7hp engine on these later style titan gts. First port of call for me would be to take the belt off then take the spark plug out and turn the flywheel by hand (throttle in the run position) and check for a spark. If you have a spark I’d also put a torch in the fuel tank and see what state it is in. You may need to clean the tank out. It looks like this was used with a mower or tarpen attachement or other power driven accessory as this has a vee-plex pulley. A relatively uncommon accessory. If you have a spark and a clean fuel tank then the next job is to buy a cowl!

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