Cpt.Fred

hey Andy, good to hear from you! glad you like it, even with the lack of chromity-chrome, lol... i have pretty high hopes on the setup, unfortunately i do not move along as fast as i would like... but the patience will finally pay off, i guess! i will stay with the vacuum unit for now (cause that double pump is so cool in my eyes) but if it doesn't work properly i will try to go electric. this is how it is now: the copper line sucks air in, i will put a hose and some kind of filter on it later. DJ: i already followed Todd's advice and oiled the motor yseterday... during the next text runs of the engine i will try to make those wipers move!

casper50: is it a 6V postive ground setup? do you have pictures of it? sounds interesting. DJ: i will try that. i hooked up both ports to a T connector yesterday and it seems to pull, but if you are running yours like you said with no issues i will switch to your system. what "wiper oil" do you mean, do have oil in your motor? i put a NOS wiper "motor" in the car, but all it would do was pull the wiper blades up (very slowly and painfully) and stay there. so i had rain-ex on the glass all the time and when it got bad i let the motor pull the blades up and switched it off, so they fell back down. that way i had at least one wiper stroke and could go on until the window had filled with drops again... gruesome, eh?

knuckleharley: engine, headers, tranny etc were built by George Asche. full story here: http://p15-d24.com/blog/17/entry-107-das-boot-going-the-long-block-route-with-a-1940-plymouth-sedan/ thin oil sounds like a good plan, thanks! i rode around with standard manifold vacuum on my previous triple intake with little to no wiper action, so i thought it would be nice to improve that. Cpt.Neon: E10 is normal here, though i think normal fuel with 95+ octane has 5% in it as well. greg g: i will spin the crank without plugs and see if both ports are pulling. if so, i put a T in the line and hook the wipers on there. i don't have a vac gauge, it think, but one of my motorcycle guys might have one.

yeah, i thought, when it says 39-50, there should be a lot of them out there... not so, apparently. if the pump is connected to the manifold it would seem it is only used as a booster for manifold vacuum. that would mean it's not very strong. i guess i just hav to try it. we have ethanol fuel here, but it's low percentage. i am using an electric pump to feed the engine, but still it would be nice to have this one intact. if the diaphragm gives in i will replace it with a new one, if i can find any.

thanks! kinda sad though... that would mean i still need a connection to the manifold... which i do not want to drill a hole in. i wonder why it has to be connected to the manifold. doesn't it create a vacuum by itself? guess i will take the plugs out, spin the starter and just try out what it does then...

Hi everybody, i intend using a Carter M750SA combinated fueal and vacuum pump on the new engine in my Plymouth P10. bought this NOS quite a while back since i do not want to drill and tap the intake and thought i'd get much better wiper action when stepping on the throttle. as you can see it's all pretty tight down there with the split manifold. the fuel part of the pump will just be filled with fuel to keep the diaphragm moist and intact and then i'll just connect a hose from the OUT back to the IN port to circulate it. i thought the vacuum side of the pump would be similar, IN on the front and OUT on the back, so i hooked it up that way, but i looked closer yesterday i saw lettering on the front port saying MAN and the rear port says WIPER... does anyone have one of these in the car and can tell me what is originally connected to the MAN port and what it means? can i hook the wipers up to the MAN port and just block the other one, or is it needed to suck in fresh air? it's pretty close to the front exhaust dump, and despite the modified heat shield it will get pretty warm down there. i heard rumours these pumps were used on ragtops to move the folding top, but i cannot really believe that. any info would be greatly appreciated! here's some pics of the pump: thanks, Fred