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Cracked Timing Cover

To: "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Cracked Timing Cover
From: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 18:47:13 -0400
Reply-to: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Again I turn to the accumulated wisdom of the List. . .

Yesterday I pulled my radiator to have it rebuilt, and I made an unhappy
discovery.

The front timing cover on the 1275 engine is cracked where the breather can
attaches to it. I can wiggle the breather and watch the crack open and
close. (This might explain why my oil leaking has gotten so bad lately.)

How much trouble an I in? It looks like a LOT of work to get that timing
cover off. Do I have to pull the engine? Can something like this be welded
closed, or do I have to find a replacement? I am tempted to try cleaning it
up and applying a generous fillet of JB Weld around the breather. This is a
driver, not a show car.

Any and all opinions and suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance. You have always come through for me!

Tom Zuchowski
'61 Bugeye
Clemmons, NC



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