Oh Yeah, all seals and gaskets will be replaced.
Balancer movement is not a problem, if you are pulling the timing cover it will have to come off anyway, I would suggest replacing that gasket too, it likely will leak if you don't.
While you have the balancer in hand I would replace it.
I use anti seize on the bolts for the cover and pump, coat the entire
Sept. 29, 2019No way?! Really... always the little things. I was looking at the kit too but didn’t look at the price. Planning to reuse the cover. Honestly all the bolts came out perfectly. Even torque. Guess I got lucky, that or bc the car has been garaged it’s whole life. I was seriously shocked.
Water in oil is no bueno. Yeah don’t really want to do this again. Wishing I just bought the chain. Was going to reuse the cover but I’m just going to order one now. Cleaned the hell out of it but don’t want to do this again for a while. Slight pitting, maybe from cavitation/age. Meaning gasket surface. Have other projects lined up. Trying to get SN95 coil over upfront. New rear control arms, uppers/lowers, but need custom or Tbird since mine are 1” longer than a stang. Finally attach the SN95 sway bar, but waiting to another response from maximum motorsports since my rear shocks are 3.5” longer and it will mess up the droop travel. Anyway, don’t want to put it back together and risk it.No need for a new cover unless there is something wrong with it. I just went through this. I've changed these before but this time I had issues with water leaking into the oil. Solution was to clean the ever loving christ out of it and not be stingy with the RTV. I'm not talking gooped on, but I coated the gasket and put a film on the block and cover. Then let it sit for a bit and bolted it up. Seems to have worked so far. At least I dont have water in my oil.
Your timing cover is fine, reuse it.Current status...
Thanks, think you read my mind on some of this. Done enough gaskets to know not to use too much rtv. More so on other cars. And I’ve found it good practice to do the corners for sure. Again thanks. I did go with the Felpro kit as well. Not feeling the corner piece gaskets. An I definitely will be flushing as much as I can from that oil pan while I’m at it.Your timing cover is fine, reuse it.
Get a set of Felpro gaskets & a tube of Permatex Super High Tack Gasket Sealant to hold the gaskets in place.
Also got a tube of Permatex Red RTV High Temp Gasket Maker to put in the corners.
You'll hardly use any of the Permatex tubes; I have enough remaining to do 10-20 water pumps.
I was able to reuse the original oil pan rubber gasket. Don't cut the front away & don't use the 3 pieces that come with the gasket kit.
Stuff old rags all around the chain to keep the gasket scrapings from getting into the oil pan.
We just dropped the oil pan just enough to get the timing chain cover on.
When all done, drain the existing oil in case any bits of gasket got into it.
Put cheap oil in, run to temp, check for water leaks, then drain oil & refill with good oil.
Southern MA on the border of RI. Pretty far from Arlington.None better. Gave up on the Corral.
Where in Mass are you? Have a good friend in Arlington. He's stuck there, his 2nd house is across the street from me.
Ok, lets check it out, first I will add that I have underdrive pulleys, this test was done on a stock 5.0 and it worked but was not mentioned was the real world, charging and cooling issues were not addressed. The real world is there can be (I say 'can be' because there are workarounds for these issues) problems when sitting in traffic at night in the summer time with the ac on.
Ok, so you don't sit in traffic at night in the summertime with the ac on. Because you can't. The temps will rise and the voltage will drop. Real world.
I mentioned workarounds, now you are installing electric cooling fans then a 3g alternator. Well you did accidentally gained a few more ponys. All's well. Most of the time.
Was the $60 bucks worth the 16hp and 17 lbft at 5k.
Real world driving is at say 3200 rpms where the gain is 7 hp and 11 lbft. Not so much now but some.
For some it works, for me it is marginal.
Now you can make an informed decision.
Did you read the whole post, I do not defend or condone their use. As I said, there are 'workarounds'.Interesting...I put an underdrive pulley set on my ‘86 not long after I bought it new. It’s now got 98,000 miles on it, and never a problem with charging or A/C systems.
Did you read the whole post, I do not defend or condone their use. As I said, there are 'workarounds'.
I know, no issues and I run under drive pulleys, not sure if I will put them back on though. Probably will.General, yes, I read the whole post, and I didn’t use any workarounds. I drove normally and used the A/C whenever needed.
I wasn’t trying to take issue with you, only reporting different results.
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