stupid questions about A/Super A motor

Stupid question #1: Where is the fuel pump? I would just follow the fuel line, but the fuel is currently coming from a mountain dew bottle. I"m ruling out gravity feed since the fuel tank is below the carb, but I can"t seem to see it anywhere obvious. We"ll pretend it is hidden on the forklift. Yeah.

Stupid question #2: Is this thing + ground? I know it is 6 volt, but it didn"t have a battery in it when I got it. I think it is, but I"d appreciate a head nod from someone who has one of these motors.

Not so stupid questions: How much ignition timing should this have? When I got this thing the distributor was locked up (due to an overly long screw holding the condenser) and the distributor gear was partially stripped. Needless to say, I need some place to start, and I would prefer starting at the right setting.

Also, this thing smokes like crazy. Right when I fire it up, no smoke. As it sits running, it smokes pretty good. When you give it gas, it looks like I am pulling some sort of james bond thing. After it runs for a long while, the smoke decreases. The smoke seems to be white which would lead me to believe it is water, but the plugs don't look like they are being steam cleaned. Ideas?

I stumbled upon a vacuum fuel pump made by Mikuni (see link). So which do I go with? I am sensing 14 liters/hour is plenty for this little guy. That translates to 3.7 gph. I don't want to buy it and then realize I was wrong. The next one up is 35 liters/hour, but then I'll have to plug one of the outlets. They are cheap enough at around $20.

I have a vacuum fitting in the intake (currently pinched shut) that I figure I can use for the vacuum source. Should that be hooked up to something at the moment?

And I got the forklift running again. Thanks to everyone for the help. A previous owner did convert it to negative ground so I left it like that. Everything seems to work that needs to work. It does leak gas, oil, and water. No hydraulic leaks though.

Thoughts?

• Mikuni Vacuum Fuel Pumps

I am leaning towards an electric pump. Just above the gas tank (which is most certainly in the original location buried at the very bottom of the chassis underneath the filler neck that protrudes through the side of the forklift and one of the hydraulic cylinders) is a platform with two holes. It is almost like there used to be a pump mounted there. Attached to the carb is a fuel pressure regulator. I can tell someone had it off recently, but the regulator itself looks original--or old anyway.

In the pic, I think you can see the fuel pump boss that Gene was talking about. So a mechanical pump could go there? Considering the gas tank and carb are on the other side of the motor, I think I will go for the electric pump. And yes, the distributor is missing. No need to recount the saga of the missing distributor at the moment.

I guess I am now in search of a cheap 6v pump.

Thanks for your help.

It was probably positive ground, unless Yale was weird at the time. Most everyone was positive ground. Really doesn't matter. All that'll happen if you get it backwards is the generator won't charge until you polarize it, and then the Ammeter will read discharge when the generator is charging.

Find TDC on the compression stroke for cylinder #1. Use the thumb-over-plug-hole trick, feel for whooshing air, then line up the mark on the pulley with the timing pointer on the engine. Pull the distributor cap, turn distributor until rotor points at #1 tower on distributor cap when you replace it. That should be good enough to start.