Quote Originally Posted by stovens
Anyone have experience buying new aftermarket timing chain covers?
I'm looking at Summit and have three choices. The prices vary quite a bit. Dorman brand is the least expensive, next Pioneer brand and lastly the most expensive is Summit's house brand by twice as much. I'm leary of the Ebay stuff because the quality of this kind of stuff goes downhill on Ebay. Anyone use Dorman or Pioneer? How was the fit? It will be going on a 1972 460 block.
I've experienced this quite a bit with Lima rebuilds. Here in Phoenix, you don't have to run anti-freeze except maybe a little for February, so most of the 429/460's I've encountered have the cover eaten away from using just water, which turns the metal into oatmeal. I have repaired them in the past with JB Weld and had them work ok.