Very good points! Yes this one belongs to my dad and he purchased it new.you might look for a part number on your flywheel, and check the parts list for your briggs engine to see it is the right one. Maybe someone swapped it out and because it would not start got rid of it. Have you ever seen this mower run?
No type of filter just close up to show detail of the gear.Did you apply some type of filter on that image file or what? Back the lens away and retake the shot. Looks encrypted to me LOL.
I just got the part in last night and replaced the plastic gear with a metal gear. Its back in time now. It will actually fire up now!.Gear slipping = not good.
I have previously showed the pic. It was the problem, it slipped on the crank and was out of time. I replaced with a metal gearIs that gear plastic/nylon? Can you take a picture of the broken gear you removed? I have this same engine on a walk behind trimmer and might consider changing this out this gear before it breaks