Changing Dogbone mount later, any tips?

[Sami]

Right last thing left to change before MOT on Thurs so any advice for doing it? Gonna do it with the haynes but just wandered if anyone has any advice/tips from previous experience!

 

[tidyclio]

straightforward mate, my clios a mk2 but i'd imagine their pretty much the same,2 big bolts out,mount of new mount on to big bolts back in and go an give it a boot

 

[Sami]

lol I'll have to keep the engine supported on a jack though right?

 

[tidyclio]

no reason you have to, all that mount is stop the engine kicking back so much the gearbox and top mounts are the ones that hold it in place,will be a lot easier lining up the bolts if its free to move back an forth anway

 

[edde]

Jack the car up high.
That mount wear more than the rest as during hard acceleration and braking the engine pushes again it the other two share the load over a greater area and are better.

 

[Lunner]

Might find you have to take exhaust off

On mine with a supersprint i had to cut the bolts to get them out as exhaust was in way, did one on a std 16v a while back and that worked with just levering the exhaust downpipe downwards just enoguh to slide the bolt out.

Apart from that its a 5 mins job, providing nothing is seixzed, as above no need to support engine

 

[Sami]

Can anyone confirm which side the bolts are mean to go in through ie ns/os and which side the bolts are meant to be on, because the bolts are touching the exhaust which has been causing it to rattle pretty bad...

 

[Djw Dave]

I need a new dogbone too, where you get it from and how much??

 

[donsrno1]

I need to do mine on the 1.4 soon. I just got mine from the local motor fators for about £15, but I've been told by a few people since that non-genuine renault ones tend to need replaced after not too much time. I think hillpower do an uprated one, or I think theres some people on other forums who will make up an uprated one cheaper as the hillpower ones are about £50 iirc, I think it was on f7power.co.uk I saw someone offering them.

 

[Djw Dave]

Hmmm ill see what i can find, an uprated one would be good once the turbos in, but 50+ seems a bit dear. See what you can find out off thta f7power website

 

[Sami]

£27+vat from renault but not sure I got the right one, seems way smaller than the one I had on there before but maybe technology has just moved on...

 

[donsrno1]

Found the post. It's this one HERE. You would be better to speak to him (Neal) on retro-renault.co.uk though as he's on there loads. I think it would definately be a lot cheaper than going to Hillpower (I think it was them anyway)

 

[Djw Dave]

cant log in

 

[donsrno1]

If you just go over tyo retro-renault.co.uk and PM someone called Neal about it then it's the same guy. I think it will be a lot cheaper than renault - he doesn't really advertise them but he says in that thread I linked to that he's willing to do them for people at a price , but much cheaper than hillpower.