'86 5.0 timing cover??
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'86 5.0 timing cover??
Trying to remove the timing cover from an '86 5.0 H.O. (Mustang) its been a little while since I've done this and I know I've removed all the bolts and the top of the cover is loose but it feels like the bottom is still being held by a mystery bolt somewhere--is there something I am missing?? never had this trouble with the older 289s and 351 Windsors of 60s vintage. Thanks!!
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Yes, I have removed the bolts that go through the front of the oil pan and into the timing cover, I can't seem to remember the alignment dowels that you mention--would they keep me from taking the cover off??
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I'm in just the opposite position...I have a 5.0 timing cover I'm putting on a an engine I'm building, and I found the dowel on the botton driver's side is too big for my timing cover. Hmmm.
Anyway, the dowel(s) might be corroded inside the cover due to galvanic corrosion (two different metals touching each other for a darned long time). Might just need to squirt some penetrating oil in there and work it off.
On my first note, anyone got an idea about what I should do? Drill the cover out? Remove the dowel? find a solid dowel and have it turned down to the size of the cover?
Anyway, the dowel(s) might be corroded inside the cover due to galvanic corrosion (two different metals touching each other for a darned long time). Might just need to squirt some penetrating oil in there and work it off.
On my first note, anyone got an idea about what I should do? Drill the cover out? Remove the dowel? find a solid dowel and have it turned down to the size of the cover?
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Thanks for the suggestion on the dowels-in spraying them with penetrating oil.
Your problem is most likely what I will incur next with the dowels bigger than the holes in the BRAND NEW terribly generic cover that I bought.
Can an original FORD cover not be had new???? for an '86 5.0 302 engine??
Your problem is most likely what I will incur next with the dowels bigger than the holes in the BRAND NEW terribly generic cover that I bought.
Can an original FORD cover not be had new???? for an '86 5.0 302 engine??
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Summit sells em. But at $125-something dollars a pop, you're better off sourcing one from a junkyard.-------------------Hunter, sounds like you have a pre-dowel timing cover. A good machinist could fix it though, I'm sure.
