[Healeys] Engine Mount Rubbers

Alan Seigrist healey.nut at gmail.com
Sun Mar 20 21:51:21 MDT 2022


Hi Harold -

Here's a picture of how put a new peg on the rubber by tapping out a hole,
then grind off the wrong side.

Worked well but I ended up just reusing my old rubbers in my case, but I do
have these as a backup.

[image: image.png]

Here you can see the new and old ones are opposite

[image: 205883706_10160985833529377_2312188817106505781_n.jpeg]

Best,

Alan

On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 11:42 AM Alan Seigrist <healey.nut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Harold -
>
> Yeah, I had this exact same problem.  If your rebound rubbers are in good
> shape, just reuse them, they don't get much stress if they are installed
> properly.
>
> If you really want to use the 180 out rubbers, you can grind off the tab,
> and then get a small bolt of the same diameter, cut off the head, tap out a
> hole in the right spot on the rebound rubber and rebuild it correctly that
> way, I've done that before.
>
> Best,
>
> Alan
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 1:36 AM Harold Manifold via Healeys <
> healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> I was dry fitting the engine mounts for my AH 3000 to get an idea of what
>> shims would be needed to set the gap to the rebound rubbers. The new
>> rebound rubbers I have are different than the originals. After assessing it
>> looks like the locating pin on the top of the rebound rubber is 180 degrees
>> out from where it should be. Did I buy the wrong the rebound rubbers? Has
>> anyone else had this problem?
>>
>>
>>
>> See the attached picture. The original 60 year old rubbers are on the
>> left and new parts on the right.
>>
>>
>>
>> I could grind the pin off and turn the rubbers but the one centre bolt
>> likely wouldn’t keep them in place.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks…. Harold
>>
>>
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