General Category => Parts and Paper => Topic started by: Wilfried on August 01, 2007, 05:34:13 AM
Title: Fuel pump for 1932 PB
Post by: Wilfried on August 01, 2007, 05:34:13 AM
The body of the fuel pump has broken. I have repaired it by sealing the glass bowel with epoxy to the metal cover. It seems to work, but I am afraid one day it will break or leak again. Also, I cannot any more clean the bowel. Can anybody tell me where I can get a new fuel pump for this car? It's a PB of 1932. Thanks for your help! Wilfried
Title: Re: Fuel pump for 1932 PB
Post by: WRSW32A on August 01, 2007, 10:42:22 AM
Try Roberts Motor Parts 1-978-363-5407, or Andy Bernbaum Auto Parts 1-617-244-1118. They both handle a huge supply of vintage reproduced Plymouth-Dodge auto parts. If they can't help, ask them to refer you to someone. Also try the Plymouth Doctor at .
Hope that I am of some help. I have had good experience with each one of them.
Title: Re: Fuel pump for 1932 PB
Post by: FourDoor on August 01, 2007, 01:00:04 PM
By the end of 1930 the fuel pump on a Plymouth was a General Motors AC unit. Your pump is shared with many GM vehicles and? it's very easy to get rebuild parts and reasonably easy to find another complete pump. I don't know what GM/Chrysler vehicles used the exact pump body from a PB but it shouldn't be too hard to find out. In any case you would be wise to extend your search to GM and not just look for a PB replacement. If you find a GM body and it looks like it will do the job, make sure the cam shaft actuating lever is the correct length and shape. The book shows the pump breaking down into lower body and upper body. You may find you only have to hunt up an upper body which would make the cam shaft lever problem redundant. Good luck.
Title: Re: Fuel pump for 1932 PB
Post by: 12905 on August 01, 2007, 05:28:17 PM
Plymouths is correct. AC fuel pump bodies and tops of one design were used on virtually all North American production - with the sometime exception of Ford - for many years. Different rocker arms and the angle at which the top was placed on the body in relation to the block mount were basically the only variations. I once worked in a rebuild shop and we bought used pumps by the hundreds. They were stripped, cleaned and the bodies/tops thrown into two different bins. When we got an order for a run of pumps to fit a certain model, the parts were assembled using the correct rocker arms, and the tops were aligned to match the original.
So, just look for the parts you need, never mind what the pump came off.