engine mount rubber removal

Oily Fingers · August 11, 2011, 10:28:40 PM

What the best way to remove the rubbers in the engine mounts to get the mounts powdercoated?

and also the best way to install the rubber back in.

joel

cheys03 · August 11, 2011, 10:35:39 PM

Big vice, some choice wooden blocks and a massive flatblade screwdriver. Fairly liquid helps too - I washed it all off afterwards in case it attacked the rubber

Jezza-7 · August 11, 2011, 11:05:27 PM

I got pissed off and cut them out. But i upgraded to poly mounts. They had to be pressed in with a hydraulic press.

Oily Fingers · August 12, 2011, 12:55:53 PM

where did you get the poly mounts from?

Jezza-7 · August 12, 2011, 01:06:26 PM

Group buy on here.

breadman · August 12, 2011, 06:00:57 PM

I got a set of these from the group buy too.
I'm a bit dissapointed at just flexible they are - in fact they feel no firmer than the OE ones. Maybe once pressed into the mounting body they will firm up?

Justin14100 · August 12, 2011, 06:21:15 PM

i saw somewhere that a new one from VW wasn't too far off these poly ones.

Jezza-7 · August 12, 2011, 11:48:37 PM

Quote from: breadman on August 12, 2011, 06:00:57 PM
I got a set of these from the group buy too.
I'm a bit dissapointed at just flexible they are - in fact they feel no firmer than the OE ones. Maybe once pressed into the mounting body they will firm up?

Yeah i thought that, i thought they had been coated in poly but there still new mounts and do a better job than the old ones.

dekerf1996 · August 13, 2011, 09:06:10 AM

I got some off the group buy too, and wasn't too happy with them either. They only have a shore rating of .55 which is to the speck PSD set up.

I now have a set from Phil J and they are much harder, I think .65 annd are noticeably harder when not in the mount. Something like 20% harder than the poly ones and 40% stiffer than OEM

However they are only a prototype set, but i think he is getting some made up soon. I would pm him and ask