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Wobba
28-10-2007, 20:51
Hi! Gonna have to stick my head under the bonnet of a 16v soon and need some help.

Apparently a gerbox mount has gone and needs to be replaced. Which one is most likely to go, is it always the same one, and can I assume I need a R19 replacement?

What I want to do is get hold of a spare to replace straight away as time is short before the car has to go on a long journey.

How is driving with one mount missing?
Lunner
28-10-2007, 20:56
Need all the mounts, if the gearstick moves back and forwards when you lift off/floor it then it will be dog bone, of not then it will be the other one....most of the time anyways
Wobba
28-10-2007, 21:00
Ok. You say dont drive it if mount is missing? Dog bone is easy fix?
Lunner
28-10-2007, 22:04
yeah, 2 bolts and sorted
cooper
28-10-2007, 22:31
1 of mine went to nite, mines the 1 under the battery, looks like the bolt from the mount has snapped so i'm trying to find out the best thing to do to sort it if any 1 knos??
Wobba
28-10-2007, 23:05
Is it this one under battery?

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/jay16v-/DSCF1436Medium.jpg
MAXIBOY
28-10-2007, 23:26
yes thats the metal bit. theres a rubber mounting also
Wobba
28-10-2007, 23:43
Does it look like a pad of rubber and does it go where them two bolts are above the broken mount?
Wobba
28-10-2007, 23:49
I have to move the car 30 miles. If one mount has gone is it okay if I drive carefully?
BristolSam16v
29-10-2007, 02:12
That bolt that has sheered off goes through the middle of the rubber bit basically.

And I drove my car a few miles after the same mount snapped and it was pretty dodgy as the engine was pivotting on the top mount but I suppose if you take it really really easy it isn't going to be any different from towing or just letting it stand still?
cooper
29-10-2007, 19:41
Is it this one under battery?

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/jay16v-/DSCF1436Medium.jpg

thats exactly how mine has snapped...
donsrno1
29-10-2007, 19:57
If the gearbox mount is snapped as in the photo you put up I wouldn't drive it at all if it was my car.
Wobba
29-10-2007, 20:36
Okay, think its the dogbone mount now...driveable? Gear stick is rocking back and forth under acceleration/braking.
MAXIBOY
29-10-2007, 20:39
ifs its the dogbone i would think so.
BRUN
29-10-2007, 23:39
that pic you posted, is that YOUR mount ?

if it is then thats obviously buggered and thats why everything is moving around, the dogbone is easy to check, get under your car with a torch and look at it, dont even need to jack it up really
Lunner
30-10-2007, 09:38
Personally i wouldn't drive my car if ANY of the mounts went, for the bit of hassle you could potentially cause alot of damage
Wobba
30-10-2007, 10:14
No that pic is not my car. I have a dogbone and a front left mount arriving to day and will be changing the broken one before I drive it.