Murray select mud/racing mower resurrection

Alright as some of you know about my best mower that I built before I joined the forum, my Murray select mower that I use for trail riding, goin fast, muddin and pretty much everything. Well the old 14.5hp OHV that I have already swapped on blew up a few days ago it was ported and polished, it has a 6spd manual and a 3in pulley on the rear, did have 22in atv tires that are currently off buy will be goin back on unless I make some new ones, tonight I started the motor swap to an 16hp briggs opposed twin, gonna build exhaust and am pretty much building the mower up better than ever.


Picture so y'all know what mower it is

awsome! you sure have a full plate of projects...

Yeah I'm just getting it going again so I can go riding again, but yes I do hàve alot of projects lol

Bring er back. Long live the murray. Its almost like murray where made to offroad there tuff as far as plain lawnmowers go.

Yeah I've always preferred Murray's just because really there frames and body style

alot of rompers like the murray's. ive never really used one. honestly, ive never really cared for murrays, just because i look at things from a buisness standpoint. would never run a murray in my landscaping company.. lol

Yeah I prefer older mowers but I take shaft I can get and my first mower was Murray so I'm partial to em I grew up on one

Murray's seem like any other 90's mower. One thing is that I haven't heard of them is having front axle issues. You can make any mower good with good tires, strong rear, posi, and a healthy engine and steering.

The front axles are sortof weak and are stamped that's why I put a cast iron one in.

Old axles are very brittle and don't hold up to sgock loads. I've heard of a few cases of them breaking, Stretch could tell you about cracking one.

The fram is what i like the most. Dont like the pan style. I like the old mowers but down here in alabama everbody loves em to. So thay an arm and a leg to by. Ask people if thay wont to get rid of the old mower with the 12ft tree growin up through the fram. Na i wont to fix it up someday. So wam theres a murray fur free
Or cheap at least. Out of the mowers of the time period. Murrays on top in my book.

Got it runnin!   
Just had to put an 17hp carb on there, and the 1974 18hp coil on there and she ran.
"One Piece At A Time" 16, 17, 18, ....

"and it didn't cost me a dime" lol man you did the same thing i did! swap out a 14.5 for a 16 hp opposed! yeah mine needs a coil, but it works for now.

Haha that's funny, except it had a 12.5 flatty on it before

mine had a 12.5 too.

Haha bet ur 16jp oppy don't have an original coil off of a 1974 Murray with an 18hp oppy lol

yeah. it was from a 94. i don't think that the twin came along until 77, so how could you use a 74 coil?

It came off my 1974 Murray

So I'm guessin you dont need that carb or starter anymore lol

No I do lol I had to steal parts off my other mower so I can't build that one till I get those parts lol and I'm using a pull start

10/4 if you ever need em I'm not using em, both my Briggs oppys have bad rings and I'm too lazy to rebuild em when I have higher hp Kohler twins

Alright thanks man

Like I said I needed a carb so...

Lol        

I'm gonna hopefully get it goin later but it's rainin as always

Alright so finally today I got it running and driving!
I ditched the oppy plan cause it kept messing up, so I built a 14.5 out of spare parts laying around, and it runs and drives! I swapped the bigger head on it that is ported and polished.