Ive just a guy on ebay in the usa selling a stiffner plate for timing covers, looks like it bolts to the bottom of the outside of the timing civer using the original bolt holes and stiffens the cover up to stop leaks? Anyone used one at all? Did it stop the leak ?
Timing Chain Cover Stiffner Plate?
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speedwell1
, Jul 13 2016 08:09 PM
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Posted 13 July 2016 - 08:13 PM
Look at this on eBay http://www.ebay.co.u...m/131870380290. Heres the link
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Posted 13 July 2016 - 08:16 PM
The link doesn't work for me.
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Posted 13 July 2016 - 08:23 PM
Maybe its because I did it off my phone, not sure sorry
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Posted 13 July 2016 - 08:47 PM
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Interested in how it works as there is not a fat surface to clamp to.
Interested in how it works as there is not a fat surface to clamp to.
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Posted 13 July 2016 - 09:08 PM
Can't say it's somewhere I've ever had a problem with leaks from. 99.99999% of the time, Oil Leaks from the timing cover are from the seal, because either the Harmonic Damper has a groove worn in it and / or the cover hasn't been centralised.
But, not from the gasket because the cover needs some additional clamping.
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Posted 13 July 2016 - 09:33 PM
http://www.ebay.com/...d8AAOSwOVpXfk2X
Are they that flimsy?
Can only see that as making problems. As it will squash the ribs distorting the cover and ripping the gasket.
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Posted 14 July 2016 - 07:58 AM
It looks like someone has invented a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
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Posted 14 July 2016 - 10:08 AM
Early minis had two shaped plates that went into the groove of the timing cover and used the bolt holes to secure them. It was deleted sometime around 63/64 I think, so obviously deemed unnecessary.
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Posted 14 July 2016 - 10:03 PM
My cover definitely leaks from around the bottom as described, and despite renewing the gasket on numerous occassions it always leaks, ive ordered one, once ive fitted it ill report back
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Posted 15 July 2016 - 06:23 AM
A new, undistorted cover fitted correctly would probably solve your problem.
This looks like a recipe for over tightened bolts and stripped threads in the backplate.
This looks like a recipe for over tightened bolts and stripped threads in the backplate.
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Posted 15 July 2016 - 12:34 PM
Ace01, my MK 1 van had these little curved plates but my later Minis did not. I think they would have been on early Moggy, A35 and A40 etc too.
But my later Minis never had them, as you say. None of them leaked at the timing cover gasket, only the oil seal, and then only at high mileage.
But my later Minis never had them, as you say. None of them leaked at the timing cover gasket, only the oil seal, and then only at high mileage.
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