I Spy With My Little Eye...

[Stokoe_Sport172]

Had the Sport jacked up the other day to do the calipers and noticed this little thing.......

Can anybody Confirm??

 

[Chris_H]

yes its a car jacked up, that I can confirm if that was the question.

I assume your reffering to the dog bone mount? what about it?

 

[Stokoe_Sport172]

Well, its just random thats all. I bought the car completely standard but wanted someone to confirm it was DogBone mount. Any reason why they would have this on but nothing else?

 

[Chris_H]

what do you mean nothing else?

Is the engine levitating in the bay? Only kept on a tight leash by the dog bone mount, ready to fly away out the bay when you undo it...

 

[Stokoe_Sport172]

Ok, not helpful

 

[Chris_H]

well what do you want to know?

Your post isn't helpful either.

what are we looking for? Is it a wheres wally puzzle?

 

[Munson]

I dont understand this thread either

 

[patty]

i'm confused

 

[Stokoe_Sport172]

Right, basically i was wanting someone to confirm

1) That this was a dogbone mount.

2) Why would someone, that didnt seem the modifying type, fit a dogbone mount?

Apologies for confusion

 

[Chris_H]

1) yes it is

2) its completely standard

 

[Stokoe_Sport172]

Again, apologies.... thought these were a K-tec part

 

[Chris_H]

nah standard.

You can mod them to make them stiffer.

The dog bone is what stop the engine swinging back and forth.

 

[Paddy_g46]

lol at this thread

 

[Neil G]

K-tec one just uses stiffer more durable bushes

 

[philmots]

im going to order one of these k tec ones, hopefully stop it bloody knockin when it spins!

 

[Fred@BTM]

only problem being is the top of your engine will move more instead!

 

[philmots]

^^^ i dont think of stuff like that!

might just slacken off the top left one and pull engine towards me.. think thats what gt gaz said to do

 

[Neil G]

Or best of all replace all of them with uprated ones

 

[philmots]

where can i get uprated top mounts? linkys pwease!!!

 

[Fred@BTM]

non exist, we're making them though

 

[caymanr26]

the uprated one wont stop the knocking - stop wheel spinning - that'll stop it lol!. Ive got the uprated one and it still knocks when wheel spinning

 

[Chris_H]

sure its not the exhaust thats knocking when you spin the wheels.

 

[philmots]

god knows but it sounds unhealthy! i think its the block hitting the steering rack or heatsheild, gt gaz had the same problem, he sort of tilted the engine forwards in the bay a bit and it stopped completely

 

[Sami]

:edit:

 

[Blue4Ever]

lol at this thread, I was confused as hell to begin with.

Is it unusual that my 1.4 sport has the 'twisted' type dogbone mount as standard? As I heard a while back that it's only the RS's that have it?

 

[Munson]

The knocking is just axle tramp isnt it? Not exactly unusual in my experience. I'm sure my brothers CTR did the same. Learn to control your right foot

 

[theduck]

The knocking is just axle tramp isnt it? Not exactly unusual in my experience. I'm sure my brothers CTR did the same. Learn to control your right foot

This is what I always thought, but some people seem to think its the engine bouncing around the bay

All I can say is every car I have ever owned has done it (not sure if the punto does yet as I havent wheelspun it) So I cant see 3 different makes and models of car having engines that bounce around the bay, lol.

 

[Chris_H]

axle tramps jnot really a knocking noise unless the shocks are dead.

all mk2 clios and the meganes from ph1 came with the twisted dog bone.

 

[Dan@SJM]

apart from the ph1 mk2's that come with a regular straight mount as found on the mk1's