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So, most of you appear to be right. The fuel tank does appear to be cast, but it still got dented a bit. One of the things that threw me was that the mount looked pretty normal so I was never sure what was meant by Canoe Bracket. I think it is likely that the mount was changed. I looked for a long time before I found this really definitive Excel Spreadsheet on someone’s site that very thoroughly listed a ton of manufacturers and serial number ranges. I’m way more familiar with firearms, and this spreadsheet looked like one of those that was so thorough it just had to be well-researched, a labor of boat motor love if you will.
Obviously you all know a lot more about this than I do, but when I turn the Rope Sheave on top the Prop still turns, and I can feel compression building and then releasing.
Provenance for Johnson C 1347 is almost completely unavailable. Everyone in the family just remembers seeing it somewhere in that corner of the barn for as long as they can remember. The Patriarch on the Maternal side of the family was an Illinois Conservation Officer and political operative and "knew everybody". He could have picked it up at any point and just given it to his Son-In-Law who never used the thing. So, in the end it has been in the barn for at least 50 years, but it has a special birthday coming up soon!
I didn’t intend to use this forum as a way to sell the motor so I have decided to wait until at least Sunday the 7th before I start responding to folks who have expressed interest in it. Might be cutting off my nose to spite my face, and I don’t intend to annoy anyone, I was just looking for advice more than offers. If more than one person is interested in the motor I will probably just decide how much I want for it and then will post it and pictures in the Free Classifieds to be fair.