I need to find a source for my engine mountings. Ideally the round bobbin hard rubber type. Maybe 50-60mm round, 30-60 mm thick and with M12 or 1/2" studs. Any suggestions?

John

John

Luego do them 70mm dia, 50mm thick with M10 studs both sides.

They can also be purchased from RS:-
50mm dia x 45mm thk, p/n 408-8161, £3.76 ea
60mm dia x 36mm thk, p/n 295-1562, £5.48 ea
70mm dia x 50mm thk, p/n 385-1996, £7.77 ea

All RS are M10

Any Landrover dealer will be able to supply them. Mine were for a Series 3, I think!

Or rectangular hard rubber ones with 12mm stud each side. Fiesta gearbox mounts a la MK. Cheap too! S'wot I used.

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Originally posted by interestedparty
I need to find a source for my engine mountings. Ideally the round bobbin hard rubber type. Maybe 50-60mm round, 30-60 mm thick and with M12 or 1/2" studs. Any suggestions?

John

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Steve, you want to put some poison down, those pigeons have poo all over your engine mounting, sheesh!

i'm saying nowt...apart from they are the same rubber mounts i used...

its better than that now! Its not so easy welding in a confined space with the engine in place - had to take it out to do it properly. Just couldnt be bothered to photograph the whole dam thing again!


If you notice, the mount isnt actually level either - points out at the top. Its best to actually point the rubber INWARDS a couple degrees - once I did that it makes the engine more stable.

All part of the crap of learning how to build a car.

But you can see the rubber - that the important bit!

atb


steve

[Edited on 2/12/02 by stephen_gusterson]

I lied - there is another pic, but it doesnt show the all important mounting rubber as clearly.

atb


steve
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that engine in the pic looks a bit on the large size to me, and where is the honda logo ???

Yep. Nice big iron V6.

If I was doing it all again I just might consider bike, if only to provoke mr gibbons


atb


steve

Hellooo...

What are people using to mount big engines that they dont want to move around very much (like not at all cos there's bugger all room)? I vaguely remember hearing Jaguar mounting blocks are nice and hard. This true? Any other options?

I'm having three mounts - two spawning off my engine/box adaptor plate and one at the front in the middle - more of a tripod really - so maybe I dont need to worry. But I've seen how much even little pintos can move on wussy rubber mounts. I was considering at one stage something like production car roll bar mounts or suspension bushes - like bike engines seem to use - but would these just get destroyed by a 180bhp/170lbft V6?

Cheers

Liam

Liam

I got a bracing bar made up - bit like one on a mini.

You can fit a bracket to the top two bolts of the type 9 bellhousing to engine mounts. The stay bar goes from here to the side rails of the chassis.

The mini one isnt that useable, so i got two blocks machined that take bushes from a mini bar, with tapped holes to take a 12mm bar, with threaded ends.

I 'think' that some rover cars - like montegos or maestros use a similar, longer welded steel brace bar. It looks like you could mod it to fit.

The mini bar is some kinda alu crap.

Once the bar was fitted to my V6, its rock solid - before it was pretty wobbly. The mount bar being rubber mounted allows some movement and absorbs vibrations. You can rev my engine and you see virtually no torque reaction at all.

for what its worth, here's what you can see of my brace bar.

Put another way, its a 'panhard rod' for the engine.



[Edited on 4/12/02 by stephen_gusterson]

[Edited on 4/12/02 by stephen_gusterson]
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