Replacing RHS TD5 Engine Mount

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Originally Posted by BradM

JustinC, Thank You for your advice on the mount and you were right, I should have taken it to a workshop, put it on a hoist and used a transmission jack under the motor. It would have been much, much easier that way.

Thank you also Graeme for the tips. You deserve a medal, doing it with limited jacking equipment. It was a pig with 2 X 1650 Kg trolley jacks.

What a baxxxrd of a job doing it in the car port, with a couple of trolley jacks. Lucky for me the wife was an excellent TA.

Will get the pic's of the new mount and the one that came out off the camera tonight.

If you look at the mounts from under neath as JustinC said there are two holes in the bottom of the mount. You should see the rubber about 10 centimetres up inside the hole. If you do then they are OK. :)

My right hand side one was trying to push out the centre hole. It had collasped. The TD5 sits much higher up in the engine bay now. My LHS one is about 4 cm from the bottom and gets swapped out either next Sunday or Sunday after.

BradM

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Good one Brad.

2 more things to note here, BradM's Typo; the rubber sits 10MM, not 10 CM up inside the mount body.
And it is difficult to see Defender ones, as they have a different Chassis mount that obscures the holes:(

JC

New Mount
Distance rubber is up inside the hole when new 10-12 mm

Old mount
Notice rubber coming away from metal casing
You can see on the top of the rubber where the centre has sunk so far that it has been rubbing on the engine bracket.
Not a pretty sight

The engine is sitting a lot higher up in the engine bay now and the Disco does not have that lean to the right any more.

BradM

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Originally Posted by BradM

New Mount
Distance rubber is up inside the hole when new 10-12 mm

Old mount
Notice rubber coming away from metal casing
You can see on the top of the rubber where the centre has sunk so far that it has been rubbing on the engine bracket.
Not a pretty sight

The engine is sitting a lot higher up in the engine bay now and the Disco does not have that lean to the right any more.

BradM

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Nice work Brad (geeez Im glad I paid someone else to do it) but thanks for showing how bad they can become (and associated problems) if neglected.

Notice the 750 Kg Hayman Reece Load Levelling Device working in Harmony with the SLS.