i think so, mine was a blue gasket with built in silicone bead , IIRC i think i got one gasket at first then read some more and ppl said to get the gasket with built in silicone bead so thats what i went with, you are talking about the TC cover right? I also pulled the oil pan clean the screen off and cleaned the pan out, and replace with another "reusable" gasket with the metel in between the rubber , hardest time i had was getting the rear seal of the pan gasket in those two notches in the rear Oh yeah before i put everything back togeather,(everything exposed) i put the starter back in and made sure it fired up atleast and that the timing wasnt off, then put everything back togeather.

 

Yep, timing cover gasket is what I meant. I'm pulling the pan to change the rear main seal, that's why I did the timing chain first. If I did get any gunk in the pan, I will clean it when I drop the pan.

 

i used the felpro's. very nice gaskets, especially the valve covers and oil pan.

^notice in the pics above with the dimple and the mark on the cam sprocket. also notice that the timing sprocket is also exactly twice the size of the crank sprocket - so if you rotate the crank one more full rotation, that will be 1/2 revolution of the cam sprocket - and the 2 dots will line up. as long as you don't rotate the engine, then it doesn't really matter where your position is when you remove the sprockets.

 

I didn't rotate it, so I'm good there.
The crank timing gear surprised me when I pulled it, I was tightening down the 3 jaw puller to get it snug so I could put a wrench on it and the sprocket came off just by spinning the pullers center bolt by hand.

 

I put the motor back together for the most part. I left the fan and shroud off till I get more time (gotta go to work).

I screwed up too, I forgot to oil the timing chain. Would that be terrible to run it like it is, or should I take the plug out of the front of the timing cover and try to squirt a bunch of oil in there to cover the timing chain?

I also forgot to mention that coolant really burns when it hits you square in the eye, even more than transmission fluid.

 

Oh yeah i poured a fresh Quart of oil on the new timing chain, I had help from my brother on the phone, i was on the phone all the time getting help from him when i did mine , Man i dont know about that one i was more worried about being a tooth off and he reminded me to do the oil on the TC.

 

The only help I get is from the forum. Sometimes you have to use your imagination when you don't have a helping hand, like keeping the flywheel still while you tighten the harmonic balancer bolt.

 

A good Impact gun ^ and called it good.INGERSOL ran titanium < spell check, tried the jamming **** at fly wheel didnt work to well, i think i used pry bar thru the notched out holes in balancer to hold it still and impacted that SOB on.

 

i never noticed the plug on the timing cover. if its not too much trouble, it would be good to squirt some oil in. if its a lot of trouble, don't fret over it - it'll oil when its running. let it idle easy for awhile at first start up.

i took my crank bolt off/on with air gun. it hits so hard and fast the motor didn't even try to turn.

 

I used a pry bar that I was able to wedge in the fly wheel and had the end of it against the block, it didn't budge when I was tightening it down.
One of these days I'll get a pump and motor for that big tank in the back yard (gotta be at least 50 gallon) and I'll be able to run the bigger air tools.
I think I'll use a turkey injection syringe with some fish tank tubing to get in there and coat it with oil pretty good.
That plug is on the left side under the water pump when you look from the front of the engine. I assume that it is to check the condition of your chain since the hole is even with the left side of the chain right in the center. Now I know that I can take that plug out later on and stick a flat head in there to feel for play in the chain.