My Sump Touches The Anti-roll Bar
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Can anyone help please?
I am renovating a S3 S/E baby Elan and the engine sump is touching the anti-roll bar. I think that the engine mounts are the correct ones and right way up. The engine seems to sit properly in the chassis.
It is a mystery to me and I must have made a mistake somwhere.
Could the ani-roll bar be wrong way round or back to front? How would I know?
Has anyone else made the same mistake?
geoff reiss
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07711 -018522
I am renovating a S3 S/E baby Elan and the engine sump is touching the anti-roll bar. I think that the engine mounts are the correct ones and right way up. The engine seems to sit properly in the chassis.
It is a mystery to me and I must have made a mistake somwhere.
Could the ani-roll bar be wrong way round or back to front? How would I know?
Has anyone else made the same mistake?
geoff reiss
[email protected]
07711 -018522
- Mohe
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The engine should sit at a slight angle as the engine mounts on either side are different. A Lotus bodge to stop the carbs hitting the bodywork
The U shaped part of the mount bolted to the engine should face down so that if the rubber holding the two parts of the mount breaks (which it sometimes does, especially on the exhaust side where the mount get cooked) the engine is still supported - although it gets very noisy under the bonnet
Carl
The U shaped part of the mount bolted to the engine should face down so that if the rubber holding the two parts of the mount breaks (which it sometimes does, especially on the exhaust side where the mount get cooked) the engine is still supported - although it gets very noisy under the bonnet
Carl
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pereirac - Coveted Fifth Gear
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Thank you for your advice - it does seem to be a problem with the engine mounts and now the body is in place I think I can fit it all together - there's plenty of room for the engine and the engine mounts are really easy to get to. By the way I am a 4foot high contortionist with an octupus for a friend. Geoff
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Geoff,
I'm about to replace all the bushes on my suspension, gearbox and diff mounts on my +2. An extra 4 pairs of compact hands would be brill, can I borrow him/her?
Hamish.
I'm about to replace all the bushes on my suspension, gearbox and diff mounts on my +2. An extra 4 pairs of compact hands would be brill, can I borrow him/her?
Hamish.
"One day I'll finish the restoration - honest, darling, just a few more years....."
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