sacrileger
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- Jun 26, 2016
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Orillia,
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i have a "second hand" 6-bolt 4g63 engine which came with a timing belt cover stamped with part number MD141459 S / MD141461 B.
this particular timing belt cover leaves about 1/2" gap between the oil pan flange and the bottom end of the cover. the timing belt can be clearly seen thru the gap.
i have never given this gap any serious thought until recently. i live in a rural area and i am often driving on unpaved and/or gravel roads with mud, stones, dirt etc. flying everywhere even at low speeds. in my opinion, one cannot rule out the possibility that some foreign object can enter the timing face area via this gap and potentially cause problems.
i searched this forum and found references to various tbelt covers which also fit the 6-bolt. one such cover is the MD141454. further search of this forum uncovered 6-13 y.o. dead links to " parts for a hyundai sonata from Beck Arnley 038 0265 Timing Cover Engine Timing Cover | eBay and the other looks 1gb Beck Arnley 038 0267 Timing Cover | eBay", Beck/Arnley 038-0265 is packaged and badged as an OEM Hyundai/Kia lower timing belt cover with part number 2135033131. This presumably is the same as the DSM 6-bolt lower timing covers. Some posters claim that a dohc 2.0 Hyundai sonata works just like dsm stock and the part number was 038-0265 beck/arnly for his 6 bolt; some posts are suggesting that MD141456 is black cover and MD141454 silver cover, etc. However, besides comments confirming that these covers bolt on the 6-bolt engine, i have not found any definitive info if any of these covers close the 1/2" gap and this is the information i am hoping to ferret out in this post.
thank you in advance for looking under your car and reporting back if you have timing belt covers which close the gap and if they do, what the part number is.
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this particular timing belt cover leaves about 1/2" gap between the oil pan flange and the bottom end of the cover. the timing belt can be clearly seen thru the gap.
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i have never given this gap any serious thought until recently. i live in a rural area and i am often driving on unpaved and/or gravel roads with mud, stones, dirt etc. flying everywhere even at low speeds. in my opinion, one cannot rule out the possibility that some foreign object can enter the timing face area via this gap and potentially cause problems.
i searched this forum and found references to various tbelt covers which also fit the 6-bolt. one such cover is the MD141454. further search of this forum uncovered 6-13 y.o. dead links to " parts for a hyundai sonata from Beck Arnley 038 0265 Timing Cover Engine Timing Cover | eBay and the other looks 1gb Beck Arnley 038 0267 Timing Cover | eBay", Beck/Arnley 038-0265 is packaged and badged as an OEM Hyundai/Kia lower timing belt cover with part number 2135033131. This presumably is the same as the DSM 6-bolt lower timing covers. Some posters claim that a dohc 2.0 Hyundai sonata works just like dsm stock and the part number was 038-0265 beck/arnly for his 6 bolt; some posts are suggesting that MD141456 is black cover and MD141454 silver cover, etc. However, besides comments confirming that these covers bolt on the 6-bolt engine, i have not found any definitive info if any of these covers close the 1/2" gap and this is the information i am hoping to ferret out in this post.
thank you in advance for looking under your car and reporting back if you have timing belt covers which close the gap and if they do, what the part number is.