Yesterday, I had occasion to drop in on my pal Mike Casella who was hard at work in the machine shop at Then and Now Automotive in Weymouth, Massachusetts. We’ve done some neat stuff with the guys from Then and Now in the past and I have a plan to get some new, interesting content coming from them for the blog in the neat future. For those of you unaware of what business Then and Now is in, unobtanium is their bread and butter. Need a cylinder head for your Essex? Maybe a harmonic balancer for your antique Mack truck? How about a distributor cap for your 16 cylinder Cadillac? They have all this stuff ready to go, and Mike job is to make the stuff they don’t have.
As the machine shop guy, Mike gets boxes of junked up parts from all over the world with the simple order to make them work like new again. While the order is simple, the fact that he has to make lots of the bits to actually repair this stuff makes him a BangShifty Jedi-master. He’s bailed me out on more than one occasion and lots of people from all corners of the globe can say the same thing.
When I dropped in yesterday, Mike’s project was working on bringing a stack of old mechanical fuel pumps back to life for a customer. I didn’t give it much of a thought because who hasn’t seen six thousand mechanical fuel pumps in their life until I actually started looking at the pumps and a few things jumped out at me as being weird.
Mike gave me the lowdown on the pumps and what those odd appendages are for. Oh, and there is a mark on this thing that will make people think it is obvious….but it ain’t!
Your job is to tell us what car and era this pump is supposed to be bolted to!
Looks like a fuel/vacuum combo…..possibly for an early Ford Bronco to runthe wipers…..
did they use vacuum wipers on boats?
It has one port for the feed line from the tank. Ones the feed to the carb and the other one is for a return line
“It has one port for the feed line from the tank. Ones the feed to the carb and the other one is for a return line.”
Had a similar pump on my 86 Camaro in it´s original setup.
Looks like late 70’s small block chevy , early smog motor fuel pump.
It’s a high performance muffler bearing lubrication pump for dual exhaust. hense the two ports.
It’s for a Thermoquad.