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

[Dustin Cloud <hell_fish_65@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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That is a poly 318 or 273 timing cover. There is a marker that attaches to 2 
bolts on the water pump.



Dustin
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65 Barracuda "Commando V8"
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"If it jams force it, if it breaks it needed fixing anyway."








> From: Robert neal zimmerman <northwestweirdo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx
> To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: confusion, timing covers, balancers, help please.
> Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 11:56:47 -0700
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>   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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