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[CaptainBland08]

hey,

i know for a fact that minimad69 will back me up on this and im guessing a few other...

http://www.minisport...SPDSP680FR.html

these engine mounts are utter pants. when fitted the flex far too much causeing loads of gearbox movment, so ALOT of extra gearbox steadies are nessesary...

the final straw with mine today was that the steel pin that goes through them to secure them in place snapped into three peices... two of which must be in the road somewhere now...

they are not good at all... yes they make taking the engine in and out pretty easy, but i would much rarther stick with standard ones now if im honest.

Chris

[CaptainBland08]

by the way... im not targetting minisport ones in particular... just these type of mounts in general... mine were the orange polyflew ones...

[Mini Mad Drakeley]

haha i had asked someone on their project thread cus i was considering a pair but was told not to, i saw a pair on ebay not long ago that was poly except it was solid and the nuts where welded on so only the bolts had to come out, unfortunately they havent been reposted quite depressed lol but the snapping sounds about right, the pins arent substantial enough to cope with the stress and strains ot the engine moving about too much, if they where rubber the pins could cope easily lol

[TopCatCustom]

I'll agree with you, they are puny and I found getting the pins out so damned fiddly I think it is quicker just to undo the bolts!

[mini_mad69]

They make the engine easy to take out yes. Thats because they dont even hold it in, in the first place!!!!!

Utter crap, my exhaust would fall off, gear linkage would wobble.

My engine shifted in the engine bay so much a driveshaft fell out!!!!!!!!


I got mine from ebay, but they all seem the same. Mine are in the bin, I wouldn't give them away because didn't want anyone to have the same issues.



Utterly uselesss.

[ado15]

These poly mounts must surely flex more than the rubber equivalents. The standard rubber engine mounts have steel containment for the rubber making it operate mostly in compression. The poly ones are just a lump of compliant plastic with no support. It will flex dramatically around the bolts.

The same can also be said of the subframe mounts in my opinion.

I'm happy to be proven wrong, but......