Yup that'n will work. It will even take a 70 (& later) water pump, even reverse rotation. I have on the 331 in Miss May. Highly reccommend use stainless bolts to attach the timing cover.

Tubo

What engine do you have?  That timing cover has the 70 and newer style timing pointer on the passenger side, for use with a 70 or newer 4-bolt balancer.  If you have a 69 or earlier water pump and pulley system, you need a 289 style cover with the pointer on the driver side, where the corresponding marks are located on your harmonic balancer.

There are several variations of the basic timing cover, even in the first five years of Mustang V8's.

You will also want to remove the flange on the lower crank seal hole so you can use the later style balancer seal that installs from the outside.  The early covers required cover removal to change out a seal.  Newer seals only require removal of the balancer.

take a sidecutter and shorten it up, unless I am misunderstanding what you are typing.

Yes the bolt did break off in a water pump to TC cover bolt hole. I have fully removed the bolt and did attempt to use a heli-coil. But my problem is he my heli-coil backs out of the hole before I can get a good water pump seal on my timing Chain cover even with using rtv silicone w/rubber gasket.

My neighbor gave me a timing cover he had for a 302 crate engine for free.  Will this work for my 65 289?

Post a pic of the old timing cover next to the new one.  65 covers were way different than that one if you got one of the early 65 ones.

You have not given enough information about what timing cover you have for anyone to tell you what can replace it.

When you insert the heli-coil, are you breaking off the tank once it gets screwed in place?  That will usually let it stay in place.  Also, some red loctite on the heli coil, let to dry for a couple of days (WITHOUT THE BOLT IN IT !!) will keep it where it belongs.

If its one of the top 3 bolt holes of the timing cover/waterpump you are refering to, you can certainly use longer bolts and nuts on the backside of those.   On my 289, I have an aftermarket a/c bracket that uses two of those holes, so I have nuts on the backside.   Its hardly stock looking, but its hardly noticeable, either.  

I have a cover very similar to what ...yamaha posted.    Turns out tdc is not where the pointer is cast in.  In my case, it's off by six degrees, so I made up a new pointer with a kink in it to point to true tdc.

Your C30E cover likely has the open impeller water pump, right?  If so, you need that same timing cover that uses the open impeller pump.  The timing cover forms the rear cover of the water pump.

Do you have the aluminum pump or iron pump/.

I have the 69 302 with the water pump lower hose on passenger side.    Looking at the diagram my 1979 Mustang with a 302 had the same routing of belt system as the 1990 efi pump.  Im thinking that had to be reverse rotation also.  But when I look at the waterpumps from a 1990 mustang 5.0 it looks like the same pump at a 69 302 pump.   Im running a cool flow aluminum water pump. 

Steve69

MustangSteve wrote:

Your C30E cover likely has the open impeller water pump, right?  If so, you need that same timing cover that uses the open impeller pump.  The timing cover forms the rear cover of the water pump.

Do you have the aluminum pump or iron pump/.

I have an aluminum pump.

That is a great link with vast info !!!  I bookmarked it.

Your aluminum water pump requires the timing cover that matches it. It must have the cavity for the back of the water pump to fit into, which none of the late 65 or later ones have.

Yours looks like this one, right?