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You have an evinrude bracket. Either find a Johnson one, or rig that up with a pin.
Regarding filling the weep holes….no one that actually knew what they were talking about did it! NO offense to him of course, but seen it done many times, all caused me nightmares to repair. Those weep holes allow the gearcase to drain. Filling them causes them to fill with water, then crack in the frigid temperatures. No possible good comes from filling them. Have fun drilling that out.
A few of us have converted a few motors. You can find the atom modules from time to time. Maybe someone on the forum has a couple they would spare. I have also tried the Nova modules. They are junk and will fail, don’t bother with them.
If the motor is sound, you don’t really need to convert it however. I only did it on a couple motors that the owners didn’t want to change the top bearing on. Their decision, not mine.