My 2 cents.
If your not really mechanically inclined. Buy Jon's engine and put it back together. You will have many many years of trouble free service with regular maintenance. Follow his break in procedure to the letter and you will be fine. Everything else on that tractor can be easily replaced for little cost and little mechanical knowledge with the forums help. There may be cheaper alternatives but your comparing apple to oranges really. Used engine.... who knows you might get lucky, or ya get a smoker or one that throws another rod. Someone here said rebuild yourself.... don't do it.. don't let a buddy at work talk you into doing it. Just not worth putting an engine together wrong and trying costly new parts in a month. Anyway.. good.luck with it 
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