Chipped crankcase

[Jerome74911S]

Is this a disaster?

While installing a home-built yoke on the engine in order to put the engine onto a stand, I evidently got one of the spacers that the yoke uses crooked. When torquing down the nuts I heard a "ping", and the result was a small chip off the lip on the edge of the crankcase around the flywheel.

This is not good, but is it going to be an issue? The edge of the bell-housing rests on the flat surface around the stud, not on that lip.

Please tell me that I don't have to go down to my local FLAPS to buy a new crankcase.

[chiroracer]

The chip doesnt look like a problem but the threads and or tweaked stud could be.You might want to remove the stud and check the threads,did they chip too or come out with the stud. roll the stud on a glass table to see if its straight .If the threads are bad then use a steel insert

[Bob Kontak]

If you want to put the busted off part back on I just found a two part product that has been mentioned in this forum. It's called Marine-Tex. It sets up like nothing I have seen before.

JB Weld would work too.

I would not trust either if it was a load bearing piece but if it's not and you want your car "whole" these work pretty good.

The Marine-Tex is $20 for what you see in the pic.

[aadrew10]

I wouldn't worry. Theres plenty of surface left.