Re: Motor mounts and inserts

["Ewan Hopkins" <ewanhopkins@hotmail.com>]

Don't get me wrong.. I'm not trying to defend poly mounts.  Polyurethane 
doesn't seem to have very much shear strength so you'd expect it to be prone 
to splitting on the rear mount, where there is a lot of that type of stress. 
  I'd guess that the left hand (passenger side to most of you) mount would 
also be prone to this? A friend of mine with a VR6 Polo destroyed several 
poly rear mounts before ditching them. Personally, I'd go for the motorsport 
mounts if I was that bothered about reducing engine movement. I'd recommend 
poly bushes for the suspension arms, though - I fitted them and have not had 
any problems.


Ewan Hopkins...

'85 Storm 2.0
'86 GT 1.8

>From: Jim Jarrett <jarrett@rpa.net>
>To: thescirocco@juno.com, ewanhopkins@hotmail.com
>CC: scirocco-L@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: Motor mounts and inserts
>Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 22:37:01 -0500
>
>At 10:32 AM -0500 3/7/00, thescirocco@juno.com wrote:
>
>>Secure mounting, maybe on the front mount, but those rear urethane mounts 
>>suck,


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