Re: [AMC-List] Thems the brakes (327 fuel pump)

["Jim Blair" <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A: There is one person in my store (NAPA in Bellevue, WA) with a greyer 
beard than me (if he let it grow) and probably everyone on this list. He 
knows his Model As and was a machinist merchant marine in World War 2 (he 
almost went into WW1 but wasn't quite old enough or big enough to get away 
with lying about his age) and became a Machinist for NAPA after that. IIRC, 
he had his 72nd birthday last month but has no plans to retire (still works 
5-7 days a week!)
  Anytime there is a Jeep person, he passes them on to me (unless it's just 
a motor Q) and he's helped me work the design for my LPG powered AMC 6 
stroker.
  He had a good laugh the other day when a customer came in asking about a 
fuel pump for a 327 in his boat and I piped up "Nash or Chev?". Customer 
replied "Gray Marine" and I came back with "AMC/Nash then, like the one in 
the back of my J4000 out there in the parking lot".
  If anyone is interested, the Marine Parts books no longer list this pump, 
so I came up with a '66 Wagoneer 327 pump (m4068) but it needed minor mods. 
1 fitting needed changing and the body was reclocked. Then I got him one of 
those see-thru in line filters so he could see if there was water or crud 
coming from the tank. (they don't make the sediment bowl type pump anymore) 
He needed 2 new bolts (longer) to mount the pump and since they were 5/16" 
instead of 3/8", a piece of 5/16" ID brake tube was used for a bushing 
around the mounting bolts to stabilize it.
  He had been to 10 different Marine supply places around Seattle/Bellevue 
area looking for the part and one of them said "Go to NAPA and tell them you 
have a 327 powered Rambler".


From: russ hathaway <russh97309@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [AMC-List] Thems the brakes
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I have found that most parts pullers, and that is all
most counter people are, don't know AMC from Adam. I
had one clown looking my American up on the Audi
section of the books. If the person who owns the car
gave incorrect info, or the parts puller was one line
lower in the book, it is easy to mix up the parts.
Take out your MC and go down to a decent parts house.
Look for a greybeard behind the counter who can at
least spell AMC, and see if they are the same....Russ

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