I'm in colorado this weekend (where I live) and I think Merritt is closed on Sat and Sunday. I am certain they will take it back and get ahold of them monday. Thanks for the info

Might as well crack this subject open.....

Bill Obrien posted having an electric fuel pump installed on his "36 Packard Running Poorly" thread


https://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=3733&forum=1&post_id=39239#forumpost39239


I see Max Merritt shows an electric Fuel Pump (6 volt motor) kit for $125 available....

Any one have any experience with this or precautions?

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I have motor number 68592

The fuel pump number on this one is 1521814

I bought it from Max Merritt and they have it listed (and the image I started this thread off with) on their internet catalog for the 1936 120 model only. I am assuming they have someone who rebuilds these, as with most things requiring a core exchange.

I purchase quite a bit stuff from them and never had a problem; and they can get me most things by the next day (since they are about 3 hours away).

update....went to install my replacement fuel pump....here are images of the interface (you be the judge):) As someone mentioned....it can only go one way.

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I guess I should know better than to trust the fact that (in the purchase of a vehicle) most parts on a car are original or authentic to that model. I got a few spares with the car, from a previous owner who didn't work on the car for the 13 years he had it in his garage, but he was preparing for that day when motiviation would set in, and buying a few spares on Ebay....but many of the spares belong to other models of the era (like 2 waterpumps, belonging to some other model, distributor caps, odds and ends electrical...but now after reading a late post, I am coveting the set of spare rear axle shafts he obtained.

but more to your point, learning.....IMO, the more complex, the more interesting and the more drive and motivation. A lot of the fun in rebuilding a car is searching for parts..scheming about what to buy next, thinking what you are going to do on a certain day, then everything changes....but fun in the process. These 30s and 40s packards are fabulously built.

Interesting and detailed info.
The 35-41 spare parts book shows the following:


300310 (prior to Mtr X 1900) for 120 and 120A

303288 (after mtr X 1899)

304744 (supercedes 303288) with vacuum pump for 120 (A,B, Ba) (120C has 316089)


then back on pg 39 is an image of 2 types of fuel pumps

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thanks - good point. I hope to get to the mount this weekend. Just wanted to be sure. working on installing a muffler system (so we can put the body shell back on).

You mention the pump is upside down in the picture....
I'm confused, (easy to do) as it looks like the one in Phil's beautiful 120 convertible image...

https://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/uploads/newbb/384_4a53fe744a480.jpg

thanks BDeB.

Big Kev's got a nice article with photos on dual action fuel pumps...

my question is the lower fitting....
from a restoration historical perspective, rather than rebuild my "single action" pump on the 36_120B, I bought a rebuilt dual action. It was close to the price of a rebuilt kit, so it was no brainer for me.

I think my wipers were previously working off of head vacuum as a standard setup, need to check my copious amounts of images before disassembling....but now with the addition of the 3rd hole at the bottom of the fuel pump, is this a preferred source for the vacuum instead?

2nd question: (fuel related). I'm faced with purchasing a rebuilt fuel transmitter. On my model 36, the pick up tube was all in one unit, whereas I see on later models, there was a separate pickup tube apart from the float/transmitter. I'm not crazy about where Packard put the transmitter/pickup on an angle with no access from the trunk (which I guess they changed in following series). Has anyone tapped a pickup line into a tank for these earlier models, or is just better to stick with the original plan.

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