[Mgs] mgb engine mounting

[Max Heim]

I also have a 66 B, it didn't have this "control bracket" either, and I
could never figure out what parts were needed or how it was supposed to go
together. So far I have managed to get by without it for 23 years.

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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Menlo Park, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires


on 10/12/11 4:28 AM, Peter Ryner at pryner at verizon.net wrote:

> I'm putting a '66 MGB together that I got as a huge box of parts.  I've only
> worked on a couple of MGs but have lots of TR and AH experience.  I'm
> installing the front engine mounts and am trying to figure out if I need to
> install a control bracket for the engine mount.  It is item #40 on the
> illustrations used by VB and "The Complete Official MGB.  I do not have any
> control brackets in my parts supply.  I looked in the Moss catalogue and the
> illustration number is 95.  It shows a part number for the early roadsters
> and GTs with a qty required of 2.  It also shows a part number for later
> cars, two required, but not available.
> VB shows the part in their illustration but no part number so it isn't
> available through them.
> The workshop manual listed above shows the part but states that it is used
> only on the GT.
> Is the part used on the roadster?  If so are two required?  The motor mounts
> have a left side and a right side which are not interchangable.  If the
> brackets are required are the two interchangable - doesn't seem logical to
> me.
> Thanks in advance for any and all help.
> Pete