[Mgs] Broken motor mount bracket

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Peter,  I can't count the number of MGB motor mount brackets I've changed
since they went to this style about 1977.  You are not alone as most of them
are cracked or broken.  Lorne

> From: rpschauss at gmail.com
> To: mgs at autox.team.net
> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:36:26 -0400
> Subject: [Mgs] Broken motor mount bracket
>
> I drove my MGB to work Friday. While coming back from my lunch break, I
> noticed that the gear shift pattern seemed to have moved to the right.
> Then, as I was driving home it, became progressively more and more
difficult
> to shift into third and fourth gears. Finally, as I got off of the parkway,
> about a mile from home, it would not go into third or fourth at all.
>
> When I put the car up on the lift, I discovered that bracket which holds
the
> right hand motor mount to the engine had broken into three pieces.
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/75758245@N00/7016009235/in/photostream
>
> I am guessing that this was metal fatigue, but what would have caused this?
>
> Is it a common problem with MGs of this vintage?
>
> FWIW, my MG is a 1980 'B with about 113k miles on it. I bought it 20+ years
> ago when it had 38k miles on it. The engine has been out three times, once
> for a new clutch, once for to replace the gearbox with a used o/d gearbox,
> and once to replace the used o/d gearbox with a rebuilt one. I replaced all
> of the rubber engine and gearbox mounts, but not the brackets, in 1999 when
> I did the first gearbox swap.
>
> Any thoughts would be welcome.
>
> Peter Schauss
> 1980 MGB
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