• Thanks guys l have been exploring this project for a while and you are right most engineers don’t want to be bothered with a small single cylinder in aluminium!
    But the motorbike repairer is an avenue worth exploring l hadn’t thought of that ,
    Many thanks David

  • Hi l have a Briggs side valve aluminium block engine on a Howard 300 rotavator
    The block is scored , l do have a genuine Briggs replacement oversize piston and rings
    Does anyone know of anybody who rebores aluminium block such as this
    I would like to keep Howard original rather than fit another engine and crank size is smaller on many newer…[Read more]