Where did you get the vanes for the vacuum pump?

What you have is a vacuum pump attached to the oil pump. This vacuum pump along with the intake manifold provide vacuum for the wipers. You can remove this and convert to electric wipers. If you do this then the oil pump you purchased can be used without a vacuum pump.

The only decal that is correct for the air cleaner are the service instructions. I'm not familiar with Lincoln details, primarily a Squarebird guy.

When used on the 59 and 60 Thunderbird, the correct engine color is black with black valve covers. Air cleaner and the duct and valve assembly were painted white. White fan on non-A/C cars and black when using the A/C 5 blade fan.

That check valve is extremely hard to find. One shows up on ebay every now and then, but not lately. As a substitute you can plumb in a plastic check valve that was used with the emission controls used on 80's era Ford passenger cars.

In the comparison of distributors, one thing that was not mentioned is the difference in the number of teeth on the gear. The top one has 15, and the bottom 16. FWIW
Carl

I have a rebuilt PBB-U Twin Range Transmission w/Bell Hsg & converter that is excess to my needs. Will sell for 450.00. Trans is located in Eastern PA.

EDG-6316-B is the Engineering No. for B9SZ-6312-A which was used before 2-1-60, and C0ME-6316-B is the Engineering No. for C0SZ-6312-A used from 2-1-60.

I'll have my 430 block back from the machine shop soon and before I begin assembly I need some information on a good ring compressor. With my last rebuild, I used the standard ring compressor in the inverted position as recommended by the machine shop. It worked better than in the upright position, ...