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Old Aug 2, 2022 | 08:19 PM
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messed up water pump?

i went to remove my dist. to start rebuilding the top end of my 88 302 and found someone put nuts and bolts in the top of the water pump just long enough so i couldn't get to the dist hold down. and the bolts in the water pump had lock tight on them. a little torch to heat them up and the lock tight finally broke loose. what a pain.
 
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Old Aug 3, 2022 | 08:21 AM
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Prolly because they stripped the threads out of the aluminum timing cover.
 
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messed up water pump.

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Prolly because they stripped the threads out of the aluminum timing cover.
that is what i figured. so i have two choises either take the timing cover off, i need to check the timing chain anyway, or ignore that and put helicoils in, or both.
 
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what size are supposed to be in there?
 
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