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Offline golfyste

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Broken ths engine mount!!
« on: 13 May 2012, 16:55 »
A few of you may remember me having a broken engine mount about a month and a half ago and I decided to buy a set of uprated ths ones.

Well.....I looked under the bonnet today to bleed
My clutch as advised by r tech only to find that the ths engine mount has broken!
This has pissed me off as I've spent
The whole day trying to get my bike up and runnin with no luck and now I have found this
I bought he set from awesomegti, will I be able to get a replacement as surely this shouldn't happen???

Cheers for any advice
« Last Edit: 13 May 2012, 18:00 by golfyste »


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Re: Broken then engine mount!!
« Reply #1 on: 13 May 2012, 17:08 »
Bought from brand new? I'd imagine they would have some sort of warranty. That is pretty bad. Where has it broken? Pics?

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Re: Broken then engine mount!!
« Reply #2 on: 13 May 2012, 17:12 »
Bought from brand new? I'd imagine they would have some sort of warranty. That is pretty bad. Where has it broken? Pics?

Yeah brand new £150ish for the set from awesomegti
I hope so gonna have a look when I finish in the garage, it's broken on both the front and back will get a pic up a little later


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Re: Broken then engine mount!!
« Reply #3 on: 13 May 2012, 17:17 »
Must be some underlying problem for it to break again.........?
Not sure what, but I'd get it all checked over before throwing more money at it  :wink:


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Re: Broken then engine mount!!
« Reply #4 on: 13 May 2012, 17:26 »
Must be some underlying problem for it to break again.........?
Not sure what, but I'd get it all checked over before throwing more money at it  :wink:

 :laugh: bit late for that

Here is what it looks like .......



Thee other side is a Smaller crack


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Re: Broken then engine mount!!
« Reply #5 on: 13 May 2012, 17:31 »
 :shocked:

Christ. That is ridic. Literally have no idea how you/some/anything would crack that! Give awesome a call in the morning!

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Re: Broken then engine mount!!
« Reply #6 on: 13 May 2012, 17:32 »
thats crazy! what could cause it?
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Re: Broken then engine mount!!
« Reply #7 on: 13 May 2012, 17:34 »
thats crazy! what could cause it?

Too much power!

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Re: Broken then engine mount!!
« Reply #8 on: 13 May 2012, 17:36 »
Just thinking, is the engine positioned correctly?  There are set distances to measure across reference points on the mounts.  They're listed in the Bentley manual, not sure about Haynes....


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Re: Broken then engine mount!!
« Reply #9 on: 13 May 2012, 17:40 »
I don't know what has happened exactly but r tech commented on it juddering while setting
Off and think this may be why.
thats crazy! what could cause it?

Too much power!

The thing is I haven't been driving that aggressively, people use these while going up the drag strip etc and I haven't doing anything like.

Just thinking, is the engine positioned correctly?  There are set distances to measure across reference points on the mounts.  They're listed in the Bentley manual, not sure about Haynes....

Does anybody know these set distances?
I just replaced them like for like and bolted it down how it sat  :undecided:

« Last Edit: 13 May 2012, 19:11 by golfyste »


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