Thread: discovery2 body mounts

lots of the mounts on my 99 d2 are cracking the ones that are accessible have been welded up. when they shear you get a metallic grinding noise on rough tracks also got cracks in the slam bar. we have had the car from new i think it is just about worn out

IIRC D2 uses the same type of rubber ring mounts as the D1 and the RRC before it.

I did my RRC back in the day, and it was all actually easier than I thought it was going to be.
I replaced them as they were all squashed .. and just looked sick in terms of rubberiness.
But the RRC was easy as all the bolts were fitted from the underside going up, so the nut was up top. Undo, slip bolt down and raise body a mm or two and slip out old rubber and put in new ones.
I have a porta power with the jaws attachment and used that to lift the body a few mm near each specific mount to remove/replace each rubber pair.

Been looking at my D1(regularly) as some are also squished looking, so most likely overly hard compared to new rubbers.
But the problem is some of the bolts look to be fitted from top down(nuts on bottom) so that the bolt has no way for the rubber to slide off.
Maybe I'm dreaming, but one day want to attack it and just do it .. but more than likely will need to cut some bolts to make it easier to do it all.

When do you know? Dunno. sometimes just go on gut feel, on how hard/bad/cracked the rubbers look I guess .. that's how I did my RRC.
Made a slight difference as I remember to knocking and creaking on bad bitumen.
A 4 speed RRC made so much noise, hard to tell. I had one good local downhill rough road to notice the difference near home.
On rough gravel roads tracks it was way too hard to note any difference of any kind.

Originally Posted by AK83

IIRC D2 uses the same type of rubber ring mounts as the D1 and the RRC before it.

I did my RRC back in the day, and it was all actually easier than I thought it was going to be.
I replaced them as they were all squashed .. and just looked sick in terms of rubberiness.
But the RRC was easy as all the bolts were fitted from the underside going up, so the nut was up top. Undo, slip bolt down and raise body a mm or two and slip out old rubber and put in new ones.
I have a porta power with the jaws attachment and used that to lift the body a few mm near each specific mount to remove/replace each rubber pair.

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My 2002 D2 is getting very noisy with body noises, I'm hoping that replacing the body mount rubbers might improve things
Where did you get your mounts from? I think I need KVF100070 x12 and KVF100080 x 6 rubber mounts, if I can reuse the bolts, nuts and inserts.

2002 D2
2007 D3

I can't remember what I did 30 minutes ago let alone 30 years ago!
Yeah, I did them on my RRC about 1992-ish.
.. I do remember where I got them, but of little use this info, as my man at Roverdrive closed down(sold up) approx late 1990's.

I'd suggest just get them from most of the regular places, either online via Paddocks/Craddocks/Rimmers ... they'll all be the same.

Can't tell you the size of the bolts, but I'd be more suspicious of reusing them. If it doesn't shear whilst undoing, there's always the chance that it may when doing them back up.

I want to do my D1 mounts for the same reason.

Originally Posted by lilydale

My 2002 D2 is getting very noisy with body noises, I'm hoping that replacing the body mount rubbers might improve things
Where did you get your mounts from? I think I need KVF100070 x12 and KVF100080 x 6 rubber mounts, if I can reuse the bolts, nuts and inserts.

2002 D2
2007 D3

PM Roverlord.

Originally Posted by AK83

I can't remember what I did 30 minutes ago let alone 30 years ago!
Yeah, I did them on my RRC about 1992-ish.
.. I do remember where I got them, but of little use this info, as my man at Roverdrive closed down(sold up) approx late 1990's.

I'd suggest just get them from most of the regular places, either online via Paddocks/Craddocks/Rimmers ... they'll all be the same.

Can't tell you the size of the bolts, but I'd be more suspicious of reusing them. If it doesn't shear whilst undoing, there's always the chance that it may when doing them back up.

I want to do my D1 mounts for the same reason.

30 minutes! Your doing well. I have to keep walking back through the door to remember what I came in to do!
Thanks I'll see how I go for getting the mounts. Covid is slowing things down.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

PM Roverlord.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by lilydale

30 minutes! Your doing well. I have to keep walking back through the door to remember what I came in to do!
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Well, I kind'a lied a bit about that .. sorry ... and reason is, just after reading and replying, I did remember to have a bit of a bo-peep about them(the body mount rubbers ... not my memory loss!)
Tthere are more than 6 in total, although there seem to be 6 of those with the part No. you listed.
Damned seems a bit expensive for what amounts to a large rubber washer!
There are a few conical shaped mounts too. Not sure how important they will be in the scheme of trying to quieten the body noises tho.

Just alerting you to the number of mounts for the D2.
Found a boring video of a D2 body coming off the chassis, and the guy doing it said about 12 all up.

On my RRC, it kind of helped with some noises, not much, but most of the 'body noises' as I remember them came from the never ending wearing of suspension bushes.
Worst offenders on the RRC were the front rear trailing arm mounts that used to wear very quickly, and new ones reduced a lot of bump noises.
But my RRC rubbers were squashed to near flatness and almost solid hardness too, so made sense to give them a shot.

About 12 months ago or so, I had the fun task to reduce my brothers D2 body noises, and it came up quite nice. So many interior rattles and bumps. Had to remove the centre fascia, and a previous owner had 'nuked' the interior of the fascia(ie. behind it) almost all of the heater box/vents area were in many bits .. lots of glue and fibreglass reinforcing behind the fascia. The fascia itself was in a few hundred pieces(shards!), again lots of fibreglass, behind the scenes so it's not outwardly visual.
Then onto the rear trim area .. lots of packaging foam was used behind trim and pressed between it and body panels.

All came up a treat(according to bro). From my point of view, I only noticed the fascia job dropping interior noise by a significant amount(mainly rattling).

As I found a new point in the rear trim to check, and then test drive, it was a gradual process so I didn't notice the drop in 'body noises'
Brother reckoned it was fantastic .. near silent, as he hadn't driven the D2 between the fixes(maybe took a month of bits here and bits there).
He commented on the fascia, but reckoned the overall noise reduction was from the rear.

I'd say check yours if you have a lot of body noise. The rear interior trims have quite a lot of air gap between the trim itself and the body panels and may be causing some resonating noises with each bang.
All I used was small cuts of packaging foam. I'd pull the trim out a little and trim a piece to 'stuff' behind the trim onto the body. I should have made them sticky in some way to save them falling down into some abyss behind the trim, but I just worked on the premise that if after the drive that rattle/squeak/bang nose disappeared, it worked.