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Old 04-01-2024, 04:52 PM
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Default Timing cover machining advice wanted!

I am planning on clamping a timing cover down to my milling machine and cleaning up the gasket surfaces.

Has anyone else done this?

If so what pitfalls lie in wait for me?

Hopefully as part of this I might be able to get the water pump vent to be a bit proud of the water pump mounting surface. Which should help keep the intake ports better matched.

It may move the main seal lip close enough to the block to give the seal lip an unused surface on the balancer to ride on.

I did some searching and didn't find any threads on milling the timing cover.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

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