Re: confusion, timing covers, balancers, help please.

[Tom Watters <tomwatters@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Sounds like you have the One that would have a bolt-on bracket (For
Passenger Side).  The other would have been cast into the timing cover
on the drivers side.

Different Timing Cover, Different Water Pump
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 11:56:47 -0700, "Robert neal zimmerman"
<northwestweirdo@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>   I need help. I think I am  figuring out whats wrong with my 273- the
>   front of this /radiator/ waterpump/ timing case setup has all been
>   cobbled together with wrong pieces  and I need to straighten it out. 
>    In pre 70  273/318/340 ( LA) engines the timing mark is supposed to
>    be on passenger side. 70 and up its supposed to be on driver side,
>    with a corresponding switch in the water pumps outlet.
>    Heres problem #1 - the timing case on the engine has no timing marks
>    on either side! where did this timing cover come from? its smooth, no
>    raised boss with marks on either side!
>     Could this be a poly case somebody stuck on there, I know they
>     interchange, what was the timing mark setup like on a poly 318 case?
>     (Smooth? left /right? a mounted tab for marks???)
>    Problem #2-  BALANCE- so I found a 1967 318  in a junkyard.
>      Now  that should give me the right  timing cover(marks on 
>      passenger-side) for my 67 273. Balance should be the same too as
>      the 67 318 was a steel crank like the 273.
>   So heres the question- if I  take that timing case from the 318 , do I
>   also need the balancer from that engine? Or would the one on my  273
>   be the same? See I dont know if the balancer on my 273 was for a
>   passenger side or drivers side  timing marked engine. AGGHHHH! What do
>   I do? Are there numbers on the balancers that will definitely iron
>   this out?
>    Shoot me now!
>    Neal Zimmerman, Eugene Oregon
> 
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