Uprated engine mounts

[Iain]

Only problem with solid engine mounts is the driver side one has one hole and its not threaded so you have to put a hole in your chassis leg to run a bolt through from the inner arch

Or modify a bolt to fit up there with minimal 'tickling' to the chassis leg.

[Benn]

Mine are hard as funk. Engine doesn't move at all even on full boost.. (that's just tiger seal)

[Rage]

its the front drivers side mount thats different mate.

thought it might be any ideas where to get one as like i say i seem to remember someone saying they are difficult to get

[Dan Stanley]

Thanks Benn. Ordered all 3 mounts, new at £76.

[brucer]

on mine I tiger sealed the 2 front ones and didn't do the rear one (god knows why, must have forgot). I still had movement as my dump valve and alternator pulley would touch on the odd occasion.

ive just replaced the rear one with a solid mount and put 900mm belt on the aux side. I did change to a 910mm which helped a great deal, as I lost that belt up the strip I thought id shorten it again to get max clearance.

[Dan Stanley]

Brucer, so you ran a shorter belt to bring the alternator closer to the engine and slighlty higher up? This gave more clearance did it?
Hmm, something else to think about.
Im running a 16XE with the standard multi ribbed belt alternator

[brucer]

sorry, for some reason I presumed you had a c20xe. yeh on my LET I used a shorted belt.

[andy_mk3]

I used the ends of old tyre valves that gets cut off when replacing a valve, you get like a thick rubber o-ring from it. Then packed up with tiger seal.



Solid enough for me, and cheap enough too. Happy days!