Re: 1958 air cooled briggs and stratton identification

[fisherman6]

There are a handful of things that tell me it is home built. At ir near the top of that list is the recoil orientation as Fleetwin said. Ithe also seems unlikely they would have used their standard at that time oil bath air cleaner for horizontally oriented vertical shaft engines on one that was intended for an outboard that should be able to be tilted. I’d imagine this could be tilted to the point of draining much of the oil out of the air cleaner. Besides that, most outboard motors do not even use an air filter at all, only an air box to quiet the intake noise or just a bare carburetor. There are more but those are the two biggies.

As a guy that spent his youth building mechanical contraptions of all sorts, I do like this creation. It is very clean and well done. The more I look at it the more I want to build one myself. 😀
-Ben

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