Originally Posted by
Ace17
Fast355 - You've got an aluminum cover on your vortec engine??? I was looking around for a metal cover at the time of building this engine, but I couldn't find one. I never liked the idea of putting a plastic timing chain cover on an engine; plastic has a tendency to warp with age.
Yep, I've got the reinforcement bars in place, and I spent an hour cleaning everything up with brake cleaner and acetone. When assembling I put 4 dabs of black rtv in the corners where the block meets the timing chain cover. This area on the engine is actually bone dry.
I normally don't touch the timing cover when I change the oil pan gasket, because there doesn't seem to be a leak anywhere above the lip of the oil pan. It's the strangest thing(I might shoot a video of it eventually), but whenever I am running the engine for a while, and I turn it off, about a tablespoon of oil gushes from the middle of the lower lip of the timing chain cover/oil pan junction.
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