On Dec 29, 2014, at Monday December 29 10:44:16 PM, alfa-digest wrote: > Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 22:43:48 -0500 > From: George Beston <[email protected]> > Subject: [alfa] Alfetta Engine Mounts > > Ibve just completed an engine rebuild for my Alfetta 116.33 berlina. > > Along the way, I bought new engine mounts in light of the age and > condition of > the old mounts. > > When re-installing the engine, I could not get it to fit properly > with the new > mounts. > > For those who havenbt been through this, the engine, when suspended > from the > bracket between the central head studs, leans to the intake side. > > I got the intake side mount located and held up by the lower stud, > but when I > continued to lower the engine, I just couldnbt get the exhaust side > mount to > settle low enough to be anywhere near the mounting holes. It was > contacting > the inner fender support, but it needed to settle another 1.5 inches. > > So, I lifted the engine again and did some checking. The rubber > sections of > the new mounts were 50 mm high, and the comparable old ones were > roughly 45 > mm high. > > So, I switched out the new rubber sections and replaced them with > the old > ones. > > The engine went back in, and with a little coaxing on the exhaust > side, both > mounts are now bolted in place. > > Before I go ahead with putting on the intake and exhaust hardware, I > have some > questions: > > Does the shorter measurement on the old rubber sections reflect the > original > size, or have they collapsed to that extent? > > Are rubber sections available at different heights? > > For those whobve been there and done this, is there any way to make > the > exhaust side mount fit with the new 50 mm rubber height? > > I would appreciate the benefit of the collective wisdom on the > Digest. Thanks > in advance! > > Happy New Year > > George Beston > > Alfetta > Spider Jr.
George, I only have experience with GTV's and Spiders, but I've never had a problem like you describe. By putting the old rubber on the new brackets you basically now have old mounts installed as the brackets normally don't fail. I think I would have tried using the new rubber with your old brackets and see if that worked any better. Is it possible that your supplier sent you GTV/Spider mounts as they are different, but the rubber is probably the same? Good Luck, Dick Stachowiak 71 GTV 71 Spider -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
