identify this?wtf is it?

i picked this holley mag/dist the other day?what is it for?anybody know/???????ideas?tractor?it has oil inlet outlets as well??????

 

No doubt I will be tagged as being a ass, but the little tag with the numbers on it that we can't read from the photo are probably a good point to start from.

You have a model number and a part number. Holley is still in business...

The fittings are probably for oil lines?

 

yes butt no idea they say?

 

What first popped into my mind was a fuel pump, but I have never seen one like that.

 

http://www.google.de/patents?id=7qF...rce=gbs_overview_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false

http://www.google.de/patents?id=Imd...rce=gbs_overview_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Not the whole story, but a good start.

 

It looks like it might be a mag off a farm Tractor engine or industrial engine.

 

The safety wire could be air craft or military ,but my best guess is an ice cream blender less the prop .... or im just hungry .

 

Says clearly on the side:

Part No: *-719
Model: 1255
Eng. Mfg. No: 48312
Holley Carb Co.

To me that's all you need to know to find the info. (* means can't read the first number)

 

How many cylinders? What rotation direction?

 

Is that a hex on the end of the shaft. Holley made some distributers for Ford

 

Those aren't oil fittings, they are vacuum ports for a vacuum governor. They go to a diaphragm on the carb. There's a centrifugal setup in the bottom part of the dist. Common on big gas engined trucks.

 

6 cyl clockwise i belive?

 

its actualy a gear drive..part of the shaft tho?

 

I have a '58 International V220 dump truck with a 549 International gas job. The 549 is a V8, but it does have a Holley distributor very similar to yours. I'll check the part numbers later.

Governors' were typically mech. wired so that drivers could not tamper with them and over run the motor.

 

thanx man...