I finally got the motor stripped and out of the 124 today! What a horrible dirty dirty job that was!! Worst part was getting that 40 year old manual pto off the darned thing. Lets just say that the only undestroyed part is the crankshaft! Im pretty sure I made use of all known 4 letter words at least 20 x each, have new wounds, and now I am pretty happy. So glad that the weather is warming up around here!