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Title: SOHC front cover
Post by: preaction on August 18, 2017, 10:48:22 PM

Is this normal for a repro front cover ?

Title: Re: SOHC front cover
Post by: ToddK on August 18, 2017, 11:39:02 PM

Is it a Pond cover?

Title: Re: SOHC front cover
Post by: preaction on August 18, 2017, 11:48:07 PM

Yes

Title: Re: SOHC front cover
Post by: ToddK on August 19, 2017, 06:17:59 AM

Looks a lot nicer than the one I have, which I think is a Dove piece.

Title: Re: SOHC front cover
Post by: jimeast on August 19, 2017, 08:09:37 AM

That looks really nice.  I met the foundry that Pond uses for this at a show and they use a very good casting process for this.  The first photo shows a boss against the direction of "pull" in the casting and is a small core or whatever it's called that has to be manually added after the main cores are put in the sandbox.  Not sure what the other two photos show that is in question.  I had a nice repro Mike Jackson got for me many years ago, and if I recall, the area around the fuel pump was a little "tricky" as far as maintaining good material thickness everywhere with a long draft that was required on one of the surfaces. This piece looks nice.

Title: Re: SOHC front cover
Post by: preaction on August 19, 2017, 08:52:08 AM

Thanks Jim, these pieces are few and far between so identifying characteristics can be tough.

Title: Re: SOHC front cover
Post by: BH107 on August 22, 2017, 08:10:02 AM

Be sure you dry fit everything first. The last one we had from had some alignment issues that needed to be addressed.