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Originally Posted by rsk289
One problem leads to another…
I am looking at the Scott Drake timing cover with passenger side inlet (not the very early one with the oil filler tube). I had planned to fit an aluminium repro water pump. But this timing cover has no oil dipstick provision. So where should the dipstick go, if there's no hole for it in the oilpan?
SD's pn is C4AZ-6019-A.
Having real fun trying to work out how to do timing cover/water pump. |
Seems like a long way around.
Timing covers are not rare. Which cover to use depends on what time frame you have in mind. A copy of Bob Mannel's book answers almost any question you can think of with regards to when what design was used. Based on the table in his book C3OE-B, C4AE-B, and C4OE-A cover the 1964 model year, depending on time frame.
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oil dip stick tube and stick are (original production parts are, service parts are not) only because tens of thousands have been thrown away. (The tube and stick application was 1963-64-early 1965 model year Ford 260/289 engines with generators.)
Remanufactured water pumps are not rare. There is now an aftermarket impeller that replicates the performance (low coolant cavitation at high rpm - important for high rpm play, otherwise not necessary) of the Ford HP289 specific impellers.