Engine mounts

[random-hero]

The car has the usual knocking under hard acceleration so my first choice was to change the dogbone but just looking throught the car's history it was replaced with a genuine renault one 4 months ago so probably not the cause.Which is the next to try is it the o/s top mount ?? (cant really afford to replace all if not needed)

 

[sideways danny]

they'd need inspecting to know really. seen some O/S top mounts sheared clean off recently

 

[random-hero]

To be honest looking at them they all look ok and dont have much play in them,although you can just see some marks on the black paint on the outer part where the alloy part has hit it on the top o/s side mount (alloy slightly marked).Right i've just been outside and rocked the engine and i can get the centre alloy part to hit the black outer steel section of the mount closest to the bulkhead so its looking like the top mount to me ??

 

[random-hero]

Right its official i'm an idiot,just had another look and the block of rubber that should be attached to both sides is missing on the backside doh !!

 

[sideways danny]

doh.

The annoyance with that is, the buffers aren't sold separately

 

[Cookson]

doh.

The annoyance with that is, the buffers aren't sold separately

make some?