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Exmo Pinto Engine Mounts


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My Exmo has alloy brackets with a single hole to fit the RS type rubber mountings, I would guess that they were from an early model sierra mine was a 1986 doner. If you need a picture I can get one for you tomorrow, hope this helps, Alan

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Early ones had fluid filled rubber mounts something like this. Mine were this shape from a 1981 Sierra donor.

 

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Later ones were more like this (this picture from a webpage listing it as for a Sierra 1982 on):

 

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The early ones are like the proverbial rocking horse doodoo, but there appear to be similar 'uprated' ones available:

 

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The Exmo kit had a pair of folded metal sleds loose to move on the floor of the engine bay. They had a pair of steel boxes welded in the middle which were the engine mounts. The instructions were to position the sleds to suit the engine and bolt into position on the engine bay floor.

The standard saloon engine mounts (4 bolts to the engine) went to the rubber mounts as shown above which lowered into holes in the top of the boxes and were held in place with 2 captive bolts welded into the box.

My doner was an 83 2l hatchback and between the doner and kit everything was suplied.

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Thank you,, sadly I was not the first owner of this kit and some work had already been undertaken - including the boxes welded to engine bay floor. It seems I need to try to get hold of the infamous videos or better still DVD copies

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The original question may be a bit ambiguous, hence the number of responses, but there are 3 parts between the engine and the monocoque. There is a cast iron 'arm' which is bolted to the engine block, the rubber damper as above (both from the donor), and then the cheap and cheerful (cheap and nasty?) 'top hat section' supplied by RH.

 

The meagre instructions from the old paper manual (for the model immediately before the Exmo) tell you to sit the engine on the top hats which are loosely placed on the floor panels, so that it can all be moved about later to achieve 'perfection' and only then bolt the top hats to the engine bay floor.

 

Not sure if your top hats were welded in place by the builder or whether they came pre-welded - is it a fully stainless monocoque? A lot of the structure for the stainless bodies was pre-welded because of the difficulty drilling the harder stainless steel.

 

These are the pictures provided in the book:

 

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