Here we go! LOL

This is the reason I put anti seize on the shank of the long bolts in the water pump.
Now this was the motor that came out of the truck that I got about 6 months ago and it had 1997 tags on it. So that both definitely sat for a good 20 years. Like I said I tried to get out of it by finding a timing cover locally but no one had one readily available so had to take this one off.