Piston Lift pump upgrade part numbers and info

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Piston Lift pump upgrade part numbers and info

Postby Richie O » Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:00 pm

Alright Pete, this is for you. ( It is a pretty popular subject )

Here is the pic of whats needed with the part numbers. Now these part numbers have been superceded but if you give these numbers a Cummins Dealer can get you the correct pump.



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And here is a post by jhedge








jhedge wrote:The piston lift pumps have been manufactured for Cummins by 4 or 5 companys over the years and Carter was probably the best (they were my favorite) but there probably isn't a whole lot of difference.

There is actually a family of pumps that were used on the B and C series in a bunch of different applications, some pumps were used on both engines and some were only used on one or the other but they all look basicly the same (this is why the B-Series engine gets a spacer between the block and the pump). There are around 7 pumps in the family and 4 of those are identified with a color coded dot, which will be either red, blue, green, or purple (Cummins called it "violet"). The dots moved around over the years, but they were always applied by the pump manufacturer and since Cummins paints the engine after it's assembled, you will only see the dot if you buy one as a replacement part (which are sold unpainted), if you pull it off another truck the paint dot trick doesn't work. I think some of the pumps did have the dot on the bottom of the primer boot, so those might show up after the engine was painted. All of the pumps have been revised over the years and received new part numbers 6 or 8 times.

One pump in the family of lift pumps flows a lot less fuel than the rest of the pumps, this is the one with the purple dot. At 800 RPM (That's 800 at the crank, 400 at the cam) it's flow profile looks like this:


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At 2200 RPM, it looks like this:


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It will actually put out more pressure then that, max should be just about 15 psi.
Here are all of the part numbers of the purple dot pumps, in order (ie: each part number superceeded the part number listed above it):
3918076
3930349
3932228
3933256
3936320
4944714
4988751

Why so many part numbers? The earlier pumps were kind of noisy and some material changes were made to some of the seals in the later pumps to make them better compatable with ultra low sulfur diesel and biodiesel, and then some of the supplier change stuff...

The 2nd gen dodge that used the P-pump had the lift pump with the blue dot, which is the same as the green dot except for the outlet fitting.
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