Lower LHS engine mount...

[sandman]

I'm a bit embarassed for asking about this but here goes anyway;

I'm been made aware that there are/were in fact two different part numbers on the lower engine mounts.... one for the RH-side (clutch cover) and one for the LH-side (under the radiator)

In all the years I've been working on these cars.. I've just been using one of them... (not quitew sure which - just ordered double of whatever part number i found first)..

Question is; why are there two numbers and what is the difference between the LH and RH side... What happends if you, say, use two RH sides?

[IAIN]

The automatic has a different engine mounting. The manuals are all the same left or right hand side.

[guru_1071]

both the auto mounts are different from the manual one.

the lh side one is very similar, but the rh one is a fair bit bigger, to cope with the torque convertor i guess

[66S]

Originally, only one mount had the step built into it, the other was plain. I can never remember which one was what but I think the clutch end was the plain one. The plain mount has not been available (that I know of) for years but someone was looking for a plain mount to copy a few years ago. I have got one somewhere and looked it outr but I have not heard any more about it. The fact is that the stepped ones work well at both ends.

Regards
Al

[sandman]

According to the parts list AKD 3509 - there were different mountings on non-auto cars too;

Part no . 2A5772 - for RH-side and Part no . 12A361 for the LH-side...

I take it others have missed this too

[ace01]

I think the manual cars had two different engine mounts to deal with the torque on the 1275 S.

[66S]

All Mk1's from 850 through had the two different mounts.

Al