WARNING!!! Check oil cooler mounts!!
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WARNING!!! Check oil cooler mounts!!
So i was driving down the highway, at about 85 or 90MPH today, and got into town, heard a knocking noise from engine bay. Thank my lucky stars i slowed down because the rubber mounts to my oil cooler had broken, and it was just hanging there, about 2 inches from the ground, imagine the distruction had i been doing 90mph still!!! I urge you all to check these mounts before you go anywhere, mine were solid as a rock and cracking all over the place! I am going to fab some solid mounts out of sheet metal, shouldn't be to hard.
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Just got through a couple weeks ago fabricating some mounts for the SE. Throughout the whole process I kept wondering what the purpose was for the little rubber cushions in the mounts. The only reason I could come up with was for damping vibrations. Even at that I still wondered......UNTIL! Without the play in the mounts that those rubber cushions provided, there was no way I was getting my cooler back in with my newly fabricated mounts that did not have that play. I tried everything over the course of hours trying to mount the cooler. I ended up seperating the 2 pieces that make up each mount and putting the cooler in place before assembling the mounts (which was a task). Now I am waiting for someone to say "all got to do is.....".
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Originally Posted by BlazinJack
So i was driving down the highway, at about 85 or 90MPH today, and got into town, heard a knocking noise from engine bay. Thank my lucky stars i slowed down because the rubber mounts to my oil cooler had broken, and it was just hanging there, about 2 inches from the ground, imagine the distruction had i been doing 90mph still!!! I urge you all to check these mounts before you go anywhere, mine were solid as a rock and cracking all over the place! I am going to fab some solid mounts out of sheet metal, shouldn't be to hard.
thats the advantage of having a belly pan-it keeps everything off the ground. You can use plumbers tape to secure that instead of fabricating a bracket. Remember quick fix is a plumbers tape.
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Originally Posted by rx7doctor
The earlier mounts are replaceable. the se's are not. What you do when they serperate is to drill holes to rejoin the lower half to the top half and put bolts thru them, easy fix. rx7doctor
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I don't have this "Belly pan" you guys ae talking about. the guy i bought it from must have taken it off and not given it to me. Oh well $600 this is what you get. I hope i atleast saved one persons rotary though!?!?
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Cooler Mounts
MSD makes/sells a set of rubber shock mounts that look very much like stock. I've used them for years on both street and track. Not one has ever gave up. Put the belly pan back on and run 15 deg cooler. DICK
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