Colour of timing belt covers

Tango · Post by **Tango** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 12:07 pm

My '81 timing belt cover is pretty grubby looking. So is the rest of the engine, but you have to start somewhere. While it is off, in addition to painting the cooling fan before I remount it, I want to paint the timing cover as well. It is plastic, the top half is silver-ish, the bottom half is grey.

Is there "right" colour for these? I read a lot about the plastic ones being yellow...

Thanks,
Tim

wachuko · Post by **wachuko** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 12:10 pm

Tango wrote:My '81 timing belt cover is pretty grubby looking. So is the rest of the engine, but you have to start somewhere. While it is off, in addition to painting the cooling fan before I remount it, I want to paint the timing cover as well. It is plastic, the top half is silver-ish, the bottom half is grey.

Is there "right" colour for these? I read a lot about the plastic ones being yellow...

Thanks,
Tim

Tim, I have the same question. Both covers in the engines I have are that grayish color... but I have seen them here in yellow.

Subscribing to the thread to learn of what colors this came in and for what years...

CajunMike · Post by **CajunMike** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 12:15 pm

My '79 has its original timing belt cover. It is plastic and it is yellow, ehh, minus the oil stains.

tonyfromjersey · Post by **tonyfromjersey** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 1:14 pm

Mine is a 77, and it is yellow beneath the grime and oil layer.

velozi · Post by **velozi** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 1:20 pm

Mine is a 76 and the cover was metal in stock metal grey. I painted the thing red since it was a pain to clean the stains out.

Fiat88 · Post by **Fiat88** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 2:44 pm

My '79 has the yellow plastic one:

courtenay · Post by **courtenay** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 4:24 pm

My 80 Fi is yellow plastic.

katsi · Post by **katsi** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 4:58 pm

79 - Yellow as well.

I have a grey one I purchased off of ebay for my spare 79 2000 motor and it would not fit. So, I think their is a slight difference.

Foster48x · Post by **Foster48x** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 5:39 pm

Tango,
Before you paint the cover it would be a perfect opportunity to slice the cover in half so the top half can be removed to set the timing without removing the coolant T.

I did mine and it works great. Check out the post by user digitech on the second page of this post. Brilliant idea!
http://www.fiatspider.com/f08/viewtopic ... r&start=15

Rick

Tango · Post by **Tango** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 7:40 pm

Hey, I like that idea. Thanks.

azygoustoyou · Post by **azygoustoyou** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:12 pm

Hi Rick,
does that cover vibrate now that's it's cut in two. I would think it would rub itself making a vibration noise.

ga.spyder · Post by **ga.spyder** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:21 pm

I painted the plastic cover on my 82 gloss black using the 'fusion' paint 2 years ago.Looks much better and holding up well.
Craig

Tango · Post by **Tango** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:01 pm

Wow. Nice engine compartment!

Tobi · Post by **Tobi** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:08 pm

Hey Tim, be careful on what you use on the cooling fan. Twenty years ago I remodeled an Opel Kadett C Coupe and I used some cleaner on the fan. One day I stepped on the gas and two wings came of and left a mess under the hood. It destroyed the radiator, the wires for the fuel injection and the hood. So, make sure to use the right paint on it and be careful with thinner!

rlux4 · Post by **rlux4** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:31 pm

Very nice engine bay Craig. How did you get the air boot to look so good?
Ron

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