whatzit??

[iwannafindsome]

i found this afew days ago and have no idea what it is.hope the pictures are good enough to identify it

 

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[COUNTRY GIRL]

Old type of fuel filter off of a carburetor. Sediment bowl is the actual name of it.

 

[Dharmacy]

Actually it is not just the sediment bowl but the whole fuel pump. If you can get any numbers off it, it should be fairly easy to trace back to a certain mfg. of car or truck and also date it.

D.

 

[iwannafindsome]

thanks for the info i dont see any numbers on it anywhere

 

[stefen]

iwannafindsome (former neighbor from Reynoldsburg)

Although its shown upsidedown, as you know the pump is operated by the engines cam shaft...mostly from 4 or 6 cyclinder engines.

Had a similar type on an Austin Healy I had in HS...very simple and almost (almost) bulletproof.

Haven't seen one in XX years

 

[COUNTRY GIRL]

Please don't throw it away, it is worth several hundred dollars in working conditonn at any swap meet, depending on what kind of engine it goes to. Get the #'s off of her, they are there somewhere. Let me know, I'll get you more information.

 

[BuckleBoy]

Great Scot Marty! I thought it was a flux capacitor...

 

[aa battery]

Got a fuel pump on a 56 ford pu just like that.

 

[TheSleeper]

That is an early model Chevrolet fuel pump with sediment site glass.

Used on early chev v8 engines. They later did away with the site glass, which in those times due to water leaking into the tanks at stations was useful, to determine the amount of water collected.

Most that i have seen, or replaced were in the years between 1955 - 1963.

It is a chev bolt pattern on the pump flange.

 

[iwannafindsome]

thanks alot for your replies,i found the pump in a yard at a house my neighbor is fixing up to move into.i didnt really want it so i gave it to her.the house is early 1900's or late 1800's but the oldest coins ive found there sofar are 1964 pennies