Re: Newer style timing belt covers????

[T Berk <tberk@mindspring.com>]

Ilias Glavinas wrote:
> 
> Urgent question: I got the 3-piece plastic timing belt covers to replace
> my old ones. The lower part gives me headaches: for the old lower cover,
> there was a hole where the weird 6mm hex-nut went through the upper and
> lower cover and onto a bolt protruding from the engine block. That bolt
> was on a threaded nut which is mounted on the engine block. That nut is
> too large for the hole in the new lower cover to fit. In other words, my
> new lower cover cannot be mounted flush with the engine block because of
> that nut.
> 
> To top it all off, I have (somehow) lost the bolt that went onto that
> nut.
> 
> It seems obvious that I have to remove that nut, correct? It also seems
> logical that the nut has a bolt on the other side, that lets it bolt to
> the engine block. Once I remove that nut, what is the size of the stud
> that I need to get to screw in there and have it go through the hole of
> the lower cover?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ilias


Il,

(you don't mind if I call you ill, do you? :P)  That thing you are
talking about comes out as one piece. It's a weird
two-different-sized-bolts-with-a-hex-nut-in-the-middle kinda one piece
thing. If you can get a wrench on the hex portion and unscrew it then
you can match up the small, outer bolt side. If I remember right, the
(inner) part that bolts into the block has a larger diameter.

hth,
TBerk

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