Will a 289 timing chain cover work on a 92 5.0 motor ? Im swithching to a right hand rotation water pump.
I think that it would work. It will also put your dipstick back up front again. You may have to plug the other hole off for it though.
Two problems with that...........one is the timing pointer will be on the wrong side of the cover to use with a 5.0 balancer's timing marks, Two is the older mid 60's 289 cover uses a different waterpump and you cannot use the later style std rotation pumps with it. The late 289 cover can work with a 70's-up waterpump and a 70's style bolt on pointer to work with the 302's timing marks
The water pumps changed in early 65, right about the same time as the 5 bolt block went away. Anything after that will be fine. I don't know about the timing pointer, but there are plenty of ways around that if there is no combo of pointer/cover that will work. You can make your own, or you can put timing tape on the balancer to correspond with the 'new' pointer position.
The early covers lasted longer than that Dave, I had a 67 Stang that was equipped with the early cover and pump.
Yes. The later covers could use either early or late water pump. The late pump, with the driver's side inlet, has it's own adapter plate built on and will work on the passenger side covers of the 65-68 SBF. The pre-65 1/2 covers, with aluminum pumps, are slightly different and to tell the truth, I don't know if the later pump will work on them or not, but I just assume 'no' to be safe. These covers are the ones with a crankcase breather hole in the top. On later ones, the hole is plugged with a freeze-plug type cap, but on the earlier cars, it has a breather/oil fill tube sticking up. Non-breather hole, aluminum pump covers were used on a very few 289s into 68, but those were K-codes. Not too many Maverick guys need to worry about having a K-code 289, or even running across one looking for parts. When I say "aluminum pump covers", I mean made for an aluminum water pump. All the covers are aluminum. Water pumps were aluminum then cast iron.
I just bought one for 20.00 i dont know if its going to work im not sure what year 289 its off of.............The number on it is (c50e-6059-ai) then it has a circle with a 65 in it.
The old covers with breather stacks (or hole for one) bring good money. They go for about 100 bux. I have one I picked up because I want to swap to the aluminum pump one day. It is a cleaner looking setup and the stock replacement pump is dirt cheap at Advance. Especially for being aluminum. I also like the idea of using ventless valve covers and having the breather tube at the front of the engine.
Now im lost just got home and this one looks like the one on the motor now. The guy i got it from says its deffinitally from a 60ish 289 motor.
yeah, you can tell it's a 289 cover. besides the part number, notice the timing mark that is cast into the cover
But why is the flow inlets going the same direction as the one i have. Thats not going to work is it ?
Baddad457 has a pic in photobucket on first page of this thread and there is a definate angle change buy the pic.............
