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By petebert - 10 Years Ago
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Looking for a fuel pump for a 317. I've done a ton of googling and people say for the other Y Blocks that the FE pumps or the Ford truck pumps with the spin on filter will work but the arm on mine appears to be a different angle. The arm sits pretty high on the real common one from the 50's with the spin on filter. The arm on mine sits lower at the end, the end of it is down near the bolt holes. I'll post a picture of mine later.
Only option I've found so far is that Kanter will rebuild me one for around $200. I also don't need a vacuum pump since I have electric wipers now but I'll take any pump that will work. It looks like Ford used the same mount design for over 50 years, the angle of the pump arm just seems to vary a lot.
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By petebert - 10 Years Ago
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Here's the fuel pump that I removed from the car.
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By RB - 10 Years Ago
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The only pumps that fit are from this family of engines which are 52-63 279 317 341 368 and 302 and 332 truck engines. They are hard to find...Watch on Ebay.. truck versions do not have vacuum.
Also give this guy a shout he may have a kit. John Plaskan Antique auto parts 813 713 5820 cowboyjohnsautoparts.com
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By Rudder2fly - 10 Years Ago
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I may have what you are looking for? The pump was bought on Ebay in 2003 and was listed as a 1956 Ford fuel pump/302CI W-4 BBL Carb.I bought it for my 312 TB engine but the actuator arm was different and could not use it. It's an AC pump with 1B7 stamped on it. The arm looks just like yours but has a setilment bulb on the bottom and what looks like an accumulator on the output of the pump. Give me your phone number in a PM and I will call you to tell what I can about the pump. Gene Stoehr Kuttawa Ky.
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By petebert - 10 Years Ago
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RB thanks for the link, I sent them an email with a picture of mine.
Rudder2fly, I'll send you my number. According to the 52 Lincoln manual the original would have a glass bowl on bottom. So I'm not sure this one is original, one of the vacuum tubes actually pushes up against the motor block, I'd imagine it would be pretty hard to hook the tube up if I still had vacuum wipers.
As far as what I'm looking for, it doesn't need to be original. Mines not a show car I just want it to run.
It looks like there's a pin holding the arm onto mine. I'm wondering if I could just swap the arm out with one like this
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By chiggerfarmer - 10 Years Ago
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That last post is a picture of a 239 pump. I did the arm swapping with great success in converting a 6 cylinder pump to 239. I don't see why you can't do that for your 317 using one of the FE pumps.
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By petebert - 10 Years Ago
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The cowboyjohnsons place does have a rebuild kit for mine.
Using the information from Rudder2fly I found a place selling mid 50's truck fuel pumps and decided to take a chance base on the pictures. They listed it for a 56 Ford truck. The arm shape looks the same but the the Lincoln one is twice as thick, the Lincoln one also travels further. I haven't measured it yet but when you push down on the arm I bet the Lincoln one travels a 1/4 to 1/2" further.
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