Well progress has been a bit slow but there is light at the end of the tunnel , the rear axle is already to go back in got it back from the engineering place after work today , they done a top job on it more than I expected ,not only did they strip it down they cleaned it , regrease everything and fitted the new wheel bearings as seen in the photo's so it's ready to go back into the mower ,might do it this wk/end,then can start toying around with fitting the new engine , shouldn't be to big a hassle just have to modify the back of the seat corners ,also got a new seat, then there's the pulley that the john (in Kirwan ) gave me it's a bit bigger than the original so will that affect the v belt or would I be better off trying to round off the damaged bits on the original and then refit it? it' only the outer edge that's damaged