what do you rekon?

fubar or ok,

you would have to do the shake and vac to put the freshness back
or
when its fitted to the engine start the engine and see if engine rocks back then forwards as it picks up on its own power
this confirms mounting rubber past its best if it moves lots or in gear whilst checking from underneath

with mounting off you can only look for delamination

s and b said:

you would have to do the shake and vac to put the freshness back
or
when its fitted to the engine start the engine and see if engine rocks back then forwards as it picks up on its own power
this confirms mounting rubber past its best if it moves lots or in gear whilst checking from underneath

with mounting off you can only look for delamination

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cheers,

You can see the rubber mount is cracked (actually it's fully seperated) around the top left (on the big rubber mount). I had to replace this same part for a WOF (uk mot) a few years back - even though there wasn't really any need to - no excessive engine/gearbox movement. But I'd say while it's off might as well replace it - save added wear and tear on the other mounts.

cheers

actualy the dog bone in the pic is not mine,
the one on my punto is fubar ican grab sump and push pull engine and you can see it gone,

iwas on the hunt on ebay ..and spotted that one in the pic and it didnt look right to me ,,so was just seeing what people thought ..

too many people on ebay selling junk that shouid be binned, :bang:

it was worth the ask as its saved me afew quid,

Folk do get good results by just pulling them off and Sikkaflexing them, but for it to stick you need bare metal. May introduce unacceptable levels of NVH in shopping cars!

this is from my stockl
i certainly would fit it
sickaflex is ok but a bodge at best if rear bolt not coming out

The real trick would be to build a jig from a new one, burn and blast the old one, and use a polyurethane resin to re-cast the innards, but it's much more work than Sikka or replacing with an OE one. For race use only!

fingers99 said:

The real trick would be to build a jig from a new one, burn and blast the old one, and use a polyurethane resin to re-cast the innards, but it's much more work than Sikka or replacing with an OE one. For race use only!

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im on the phone to alan sugar now

thanks for the ideas


infact iused to do that on peugeot lower engine mounts, sikaflex and bits of hosepipe

iwill have alook later..(google) see if there is any uprated ones for the punto,

s and b said:

this is from my stockl
i certainly would fit it
sickaflex is ok but a bodge at best if rear bolt not coming out

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that certainly looks better than the one ifound on ebay...the pic above,

is this one for sale by anychance..?

cheers

Superflex might do uprated ones. They do for the Centos, but they're said to be harsh.

just had alook on euro,

http://www.eurocarparts.com/ecp/c/F...5b686a0ca1a0adb462f43b9a226c5d2e2e1dfb&000461

big differnce in price compared to ebay..
iwill order new one, iwas thinking they was like 40-50 notes for new,

well euro turned out to be waste of time,
they dont have any.. engine mounts

got one orderd. brand new oem part using forum deals thing on here,
worked out cheap,

+ cheaper than buying 2nd hand tat off ebay..

oldhammer said:

well euro turned out to be waste of time,
they dont have any.. engine mounts

got one orderd. brand new oem part using forum deals thing on here,
worked out cheap,

+ cheaper than buying 2nd hand tat off ebay..

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I did mine on punto and stopped clutch juddering and exhaust banging, only thing to watch out for is getting the bolt out from the subframe they can snap though will be very tight had to use a long bar on mine,
when you get new one you will think its wrong or something is missing as the bolt is very loose in mounting hole ( 10mm bolt and 20mm hole) but this is how they are dont know why, even fiat dealer couldnt tell me why but you just have to nip them up, I bought a new bolt ( about £5 ) from dealer thinking it would be bigger but was same as what came out

Sounds like plenty on back and forth motion when undoing the bolt....

Impact would make light work of it tho


Ziggy

Ziggy122 said:

Sounds like plenty on back and forth motion when undoing the bolt....

Impact would make light work of it tho


Ziggy

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i wont

ah well its fitted..what a nightmare getting that 18mm bolt out
broke 2 breaker bars, :bang:

oldhammer said:

ah well its fitted..what a nightmare getting that 18mm bolt out
broke 2 breaker bars, :bang:

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went through a period of these breaker bars breaking
one nearly did me a bad injury
i really dont use mine in a situation where i dont know if it will break without warning anymore
i use short arm with scaffold pole in
impact gun
or a cracking bar on commercials

looked on the web and the wurth one looks good
my last one came from partco/brown brothers

s and b said:

went through a period of these breaker bars breaking
one nearly did me a bad injury
i really dont use mine in a situation where i dont know if it will break without warning anymore
i use short arm with scaffold pole in
impact gun
or a cracking bar on commercials

looked on the web and the wurth one looks good
my last one came from partco/brown brothers

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aye true,these breaker bars aint too be trusted,
the ones ibroke where good makes n all not cheapo's.

iwill have too look on carboot sales for some oldskool tools they seem to last longer than this modern tat.

well aftertoday.. ican confirm halfords tools aint punto proof