NEED HELP,FUEL PUMP BOLT ISSUE,LEAKS OIL
Especially if I had never had that timing cover for myself I'd have pulled it out of the car and looked everything over. If only because I've had to replace a few small block timing covers for antifreeze leakage at the top of the cover adjacent to the water pump passages. They love to blow the gaskets out around there, and the aluminum cover gets pitted and ate out. I've taken a few of them into a machine shop and had them mill 10-15 thou off of the gasket face when I didn't have a loose timing cover laying around.