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ditchman
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reason for the post ..is i put a new set of engine mountings on the landrover when i did the clutch................on tickover it rattles the fillings out of my teeth...so the old ones are going back on......................tomorrow..

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Did you buy Britpart carp or did you get genuine ones? I have found anything in a blue bag with Britpart on it is of poor quality and should never be fitted to anything you are going to keep and use.

 

 

i do use some britpart stuff...some other stuff is rubbish...........these if i remember were in a blue bag...............£1.84 each.........hhmmmm :hmm:

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Yes there are varying grades of rubber used in engine mounts. Some of the cheaper mounts tend to be really hard and appear to be good quality, but they often aren't made out of quality compounds. The cheap metalastic bushes also tend to separate after short periods of time (rubber cracks and pulls away from any metal in the mount).

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I bought some mountings for a landrover off ebay used them on a trials car on long caterham type mounting feet, the mounts were those with a bonded metal plate in the middle two pieces of rubber either side of the washer if you know what i mean, they were rock hard shook like mad even with a 1300 ford on them.

I used them for two trials in a Rickman Ranger and the mounts let go one had parted company in the middle the other was parting on the engine side of the mount and starting to part in the middle, if id used it much more it would have been off.

I bought two Engine mounts same size as landrover off a stall at ruforth autojumble on the B1224 weatherby to york road the first Saturday of the month, These mounts were one piece rubber and supple the round bonded steel plates either side were far thicker than the landrover mounts i got off ebay about 5mm thick. Not had any trouble with them they flex more under torque when you are climbing but never let go , are still on that car now .

Sorry i dont have a brand name they were in a plastric bag the guy had loads of them, i know this ill never use any with that metal round plate bonded in the middle anymore.

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the ones that are causing me the problem is the ones with the metal plate in the middle..........my old ones which im putting back are one piece rubber with plate either end .......

 

yours had problems with a 1300cc ford on them....my engine wieghs ...fully dressed 680lbs !!!! and its still rock hard..

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the ones that are causing me the problem is the ones with the metal plate in the middle..........my old ones which im putting back are one piece rubber with plate either end .......

 

yours had problems with a 1300cc ford on them....my engine wieghs ...fully dressed 680lbs !!!! and its still rock hard..

Those little fords are about 140 150 lbs depending on if they are the taller 1600 block or not. About ten or 12 to 15 lbs in it if its a 1600 .

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Think some people used the Perkins Prima, that was 2litre

Yes that was a Rover O series based lump ohc engine direct injection, the 4108 was a basic little four cylinder diesel 1760cc 108 cubic inch. They were just a pushrod ohv diesel in its most basic form, good little engine to be fair for light work forkifts had them in small comercials that sort of thing.

They did a marine application version the 4107 my mate had two in a big cruiser boat he bough one went down with oil pressure problems it spun a big end shell i rebuilt the engine for him.

Lots of others by perking 4203s a big heavy numb lump as in 65 fergies those big threpeny bit cabed leyland trucks they had them in , they were 3.3 litre and an ok motor better in a machine than a vehichle, .., Then there is the 4 236 bit stronger five bearing crank mostly and about 3.9 litre again heavy but a bit more power and seen a few in rangerovers they were not so bad, then we got the phasers and phazer turbos they were a 4 cylinder about 4 litre good power torquey in a range rover they go ok good engine can in those renault didge trucks dodge 50 council pickups etc.

there are a series of lighter mazda influenced motors 4s and 6 cylinders various sizes fron about 2.8 litre to around 4 litre, seen them in the royal mail night parcel vans back in the 1990s and faun xts refuse trucks had these in too before they changed ownership sometime in the 1990s.

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Cant have been a 4108 they are a tiny little 1760cc four pot motor went in transits pree the 2.4 yorks coal board had them small engine low powered ideal boat engine.

It was back in the early eighties and the engine came out of a dustcart. It was definitely not a low powered engine it would pull a row of houses but it was dreadfully slow.maximum around forty mph if you could stand the noise and the vibration coming through the whole vehicle.used it on the farm for a little while got sick of it and sold it to a chap who wanted it to pull boats up the beach.and as far as I remember the guy who sold it to me said it was a 4108.

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Guessing it would have been a ten year old at least dust cart putting it in the 1960s somewhere, my guess is a 4203 big heavy old lump 3.3 litre puller , not a bad engine really, but not as good as the 4236 which kind of folowed on replaced it.

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Guessing it would have been a ten year old at least dust cart putting it in the 1960s somewhere, my guess is a 4203 big heavy old lump 3.3 litre puller , not a bad engine really, but not as good as the 4236 which kind of folowed on replaced it.

Could well have been.it was a long time ago and a lot of water has passed under the bridge since.

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Had a series 3 with a 2.2 BMC in :sad1: Didn't have that engine in long, took it out and put a P6 3.5 V8 in :yes: That was in the days before conversion kits, had to cut the adaptor plate out and centre and drill to suit, that's time consuming :lol: Went well though, and pulled the caravan nicely. :good:

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