Grey motor engine mounts

[conaghan11]

Hi guys,
I'm in the (very very slow) process of putting my FC back together and have come up with a really embarrasing problem and am forced to call upon your expertise with a stupid question.

It's been so long now since I pulled the old girl apart I've forgotten how some bits go back together.

The rear engine mounts for the grey motor hold brackets which mount up to the gearbox and are roughly triangular in shape.   My question is should the top of the triangle point up or down to the ground.

Thanks in anticipation that somebody will be able to reply to this between fits of laughter.

No doubt this wont be my last stupid question either.

Steve C.

[mcl1959]

Steve, I'm having difficulty understanding exactly how this piece could be mounted upside down.

Anyway - I'll go through the entire rear mount

Onto the chassis bolts a "U" channel type piece with 2 long bolts through the inner rail and a short bolt in the outer rail.
Onto this bolts the engine mounts with the rubber upwards(the only way it wil go) it has a little locating pin which slips into a corresponding hole in the mount.
This is bolted on with 2 bolts and nuts through a clever little clip which wraps around the mount and the holder and stops the head of the bolt from turning.
The roughly triangular shaped bracket is bolted to this (once again pointing upwards) and is held in with 2 nuts and spring washers. The bolts are embedded in the the engine mount rubber.
These brackets are in turn bolted to the gearbox bellhousing.  On the RH side with short bolts.  On the LH side with long bolts which serve the double purpose of holding on the slave cylinder.

I hope this is clear - Ken

[conaghan11]

Thanks Ken for the response.

I said it was a stupid question......

How I got confused is that the brackets seem to be able to be fitted pointing either up or down depending upon which side they are fitted to.   For example, the right side bracket can be fitted to the right side (pointing up, I now know from you...Thanks) or fitted to the left side pointing down and vice versa for the other bracket.

Anyway, point is that I now know how to fit them again, thankyou.

Next job, to put the motor and gearbox back in....

Steve C.