Year of manufacture?

[Kent]

You can also try to date the engine, if it's original. Here's the new link (it changed, and I need to change it on the Links page). The tractor was likely made no more than 2 to 4 months after the engine was. Briggs & Stratton's plant is just a few miles from Simplicity in Port Washington.[A href='http://www.edgeta.org/mdate3.htm']http://www.edgeta.org/mdate3.htm[/a]

[Woodydel]

Thanks Van and Kent for the tips. Will check out both ways.

[Brent_Baumer]

Don't know about that vintage but have noticed seat pans with dates on them. I currently have a 7010 with "Milsco 12-16-74" stamped into the seat pan (you don't see it unless you remove the seat). The assumed original Briggs has a 1975 date code. Both dates fit with the intro of the 7000 series in 1975. Brent

[Woodydel]

I've been trying to find out the year of manufacture for my Model 700. The Mfg # is 990168, The Serial # is 10217 From this can anyone determine the year of mfg? I did look up the manufacture number and wondered if the serial number could narrow the year of manufacture further.

[JordB110]

Woody, Can't help you beyond what you've done already, which shows 1959-60. But if you look at the mower deck mfg number that's with it, you could find a difference, w/ 990172 as 1959, and 990190 as 1960. While decks can be swapped around, if you know it was original, that would set the date. VSE