Engine Mounts

[properjob]

I seem to remember a thread, possibly a few months ago, that was about engine mounts, possibly Yanmar, and one post stated that they had solved their problem with engine mounts sourced from Australia.

I have used the forum search facility and, like many others, have found it to be useless. Having asked it to search for engine mounts it in the order of relevance the first page of results was made up of posts about stern glands and P-brackets !

Does anybody remember that thread/post ? I am sure that most forumites have a better memory than me, so any help on tracking down that post would be gratefully received.
Thanks all.

 

[ianat182]

enine mounts

Try googling" Yanmar engine mountings";there are plenty of contacts ,and probably the links on these forums you wanted(including your own above)

try for instance : www.diyforums.net/yanmar-engine-mounts-405859.html
and :Fishforparts.co.uk/mountings

someone mentioned Vetus Mitsua as an alternative,but I think these are hydraulic ones.

Hope this helps

ianat182

 

[oldsaltoz]

Replaced the mounts on one of our 2003 VP's last year, took an old one into an automotive shop and found an early model ford engine fitted.

I was concerned the hardness or flexibility would not be right, they assured me that had supplied several sets without problems in the past.

Will have a look at the log when next on board and see what info was recorded, I do remember it was an older model ford sedan.

Avagoodweekend......

 

[MrFish]

There are two engine mount manufacturers in Australia, one in the USA that I know of, plus Vetus in Europe. Try these. They probably have distributors in the UK.

http://www.isoflex.com.au/
http://www.randdmarine.com/enginem.asp
http://www.polyflex.com.au/

 

[Gunfleet]

If you look at the Yanmar mounts they're an inverted vee, meaning they are taking quite a bit of lateral/shear strain from the drive train as well as compression from the weight of the engine. I would want to be sure whatever I fitted was also taking that lateral strain.

 

[Heckler]

I seem to remember a thread, possibly a few months ago, that was about engine mounts, possibly Yanmar, and one post stated that they had solved their problem with engine mounts sourced from Australia.

I have used the forum search facility and, like many others, have found it to be useless. Having asked it to search for engine mounts it in the order of relevance the first page of results was made up of posts about stern glands and P-brackets !

Does anybody remember that thread/post ? I am sure that most forumites have a better memory than me, so any help on tracking down that post would be gratefully received.
Thanks all.

I am going down the route of looking for mounts for my VP MD22 and this is the best source so far, http://viewer.zmags.com/showmag.php?mid=hggds#/page166/ Have spoken to a few guys and they say that the only prob is that nobody knows what "shore hardeness" the VP ones are, I have spoken to the v nice and knowledgeable Lynn at VP and they dont know either. One of the dealers seems to think a shore hardness of 60 is acceptable so am going to go with that as an approximation.
EDIT, the computations at the top of the page are pretty important I was told and I have worked my "loads" out at about 90, so the HY100 or 150 should be suitable.
Stu

 

[ghostlymoron]

I've a feeling that you may be thinking of an article in recent pbo. Don't know what month but within last year.

 

[PetiteFleur]

A supplier of Engine mounts is Metalastic which is now owned and marketed by Trelleborg. I sourced replacement mounts for a Perkins Perama a few years ago and they were identical to the originals. Don't know wether they would be suitable for a VP though - you would have to check.
See:- http://www.trelleborg.com/en/IndustrialAVS/Product/Marine/Marine-Product-Range/