Hello Befo48.
This pump should have come with instructions telling you how to install it. I apologize if we somehow managed to miss getting them into yours. I’ve sent a set to the e-mail address you cite below.
Please allow me to take a moment to explain what’s happening with many of these parts.
Every day, another of these little classic cars goes to the wrecking yard… never to return. The market is shrinking. The manufacturers can no longer afford to build many of the application-specific parts. However, if a part will fit a number of applications (especially if the differences between those applications is small) they will make one version of the part for all applications. That’s what we have here.
A manufacturer that cannot profitably re-tool to make ten thousand of an application-specific pump, can probably afford to tool up to make eighty-thousand of a pump with eight different applications. If a part is application-specific and there is not enough demand to justify the re-tooling expense, the manufacturer will simply stop making the part. Having to modify a part to make it fit our car is a million times better than sending the car to the wrecking yard because we can’t buy the part we need.
In the case of this pump, this engine was used in many different applications. In your case, the steering shaft runs close to the pump. In other applications it does not. So this is a challenge that you are facing, but another purchaser of this pump won’t face.
Solution: As the instructions I sent you will demonstrate, you can simply undo the screws that hold the top and bottom sections of the pump together, and the “re-clock” the pump head. It will take less than ten minutes.
As a matter of practical reality, I’m grateful there are still makers of parts that fit these classic cars at all. Keeping these cars on the road is a labor of love. We couldn’t do it without the flexibility the manufacturers are demonstrating.
Blaine Graham
Moss Motors Technical Support
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