Unknown prop engine

[dieselcowboy]

Hey guys I just bought this small prop engine. Don’t see any markings on it. Google searches leave me empty handed. Can you guys shed any light on this subject?

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[bill-loveland]

That’s a new one on me – the powerhead pointing down

[Tom]

Can you post photos of the carburetor / intake and the side with the cylinder(s)? If I had to guess, it looks like a homemade motor, using a Mercury powerhead. But the tower castings seem to match up well with the block and the intake casting is quite unique.

Single cylinder? Air cooled?

Tom

[dieselcowboy]

Sure can guys. It will be tonight when I get home. Ill try to get several different angles.
It is 2 cycle – single cyl with tillitson carb. Adjustable timing. Timing plate has a handle on it.

[Buccaneer]

Hopefully just an optical illusion, but one side of the
prop looks to be a foot longer than the other!
What ever it is, it belongs in "Rippley’s Museum for the Strange and Unique"

Prepare to be boarded!

[frankr]

Looks like a Jacobson Lawn Mower gas tank.

[dieselcowboy]

Under all the silver is like an olive dab green color over the complete unit.

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[dave-bernard]

that olive drab is zinc chromate primer.

[dieselcowboy]

That primer must be pretty heavy duty. Common on older engines?

[mike-stroz]

Looks like a Lawn Boy engine to me, and I believe the gas tank is from a Jacobsen mower.

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