carcraft302
Member
- Joined
- Aug 22, 2008
- Messages
- 94
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- Points
- 6
- Location
- Augusta Georgia
- Vehicle Year
- 1997
- Make / Model
- ford
- Engine Size
- putting 5.0 in 97 ranger
- Transmission
- Automatic
I was going to start my ranger last week end and as I filled the radiator with fluid I got a major leak between the time chain cover and the water pump. I have an engine out of a crown vic 1986. When I bought the engine it had a cracked timing chain cover. In my travals I ran across a new cover marked OEM replacment at a junk year/parts dealer (now out of business). Well the water ports in the cover are 90 dgrs to the water pump ports and there is about an 1/8th innch gap on the driver side port. I can't find any parts dealers that recognize the cover or can tell me what pump fit the ports. A very long frustrating day talking to dis interested counter folks. Any body here have any clues? Just another in a long learning series...LOL