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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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Al