Re: Timing chain cover Q and camshaft

[Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou <dougnad@bellatlantic.net>]

I always assumed it was to help muffle the racket make
by the cheap timing chain tensioner.

Doug Braun
NA1DB

At 10:52 PM 3/1/01 , you wrote:

>Spit listers,
>   Every timing chain cover I've seen has this
>plaster-like (more like concrete) substance caked onto
>the surface of it. Either within the recesses of the
>quartered sections or globbed on like a large pancake.
>   What is this stuff? I can't believe that much dirt
>just accumulates right on that spot. Can I just remove
>it, or does it serve some purpose as an insulator?