Fitting a 26 inch radiator?
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'97-00 Ford Contour factory dual speed, dual electric fans
Install is in my build thread on page 3 here My "new" '74 Duster- or why I need a project like a hole in the head
What did you do to get the inlet to the water pump on the right side of the engine?
I have a 318 (soon to be a 340), both have a water pump with inlet on the left side of the engine.
I read somewhere that to change waterpump to a "340 style inlet on right" would mean getting a new ... piece that holds the timing marks, and crank pulley + damper. Is this correct?
I didn’t do anything, I already had the later timing cover and when I built the engine I just bought the later water pump and damper as it was going into a later car.
I forget the exact year of the switch for the LA engines, I’m sure someone here will chime in but all my cars are ‘71 or later and all had the right hand outlet on the water pump and the timing marks on the left side of the timing cover.
As far as what you’d need, again, all my stuff is later so I’m not the expert on the early stuff. Obviously you need the water pump. I’m not 100% sure if you need the entire timing cover or if you can get away with adding a timing tab to your earlier timing cover. The damper you can probably just re-use if you add a timing tape to it, you’d have to go through the whole engine at TDC thing to locate the tape properly for the left side timing mark. Pulley can stay the same, if you do use a later damper you’ll probably have to slot one of the mounting holes on the damper as the pattern changed very slightly (one hole moved). All the aftermarket pulleys have a slotted hole. Some of the aftermarket dampers probably have both holes.
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