baking engine mounts.

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baking engine mounts.

Post by Logan360 » 03 Jan 2013 07:18 am

I was talking to one of my customers and mentioned about my possibly getting engine mounts, of a member if still available. and he comes out and says are they the 617 you bake with the hydraulic fluid in them? i was like um what? so tell me forum

do you bake engine mounts?
what would it do? would it actually help anything?
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Re: baking engine mounts.

Post by CBA » 15 Jan 2013 10:42 am

I'd happily bake-up a new torque rod.
Cooking your own rubber?
Cookable liquid rubber?

remove bad rubber, pour in new rubber, ruin kitchen equipment = newwwww : torque rod :)

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Re: baking engine mounts.

Post by bogbasic » 15 Jan 2013 06:00 pm

...but then with all the new kitchens being advertised on here, job done, sorted ;-)
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Re: baking engine mounts.

Post by Fuse » 16 Jan 2013 08:54 pm

Baking old engine mounts pretty much is a band aid and doesn't even work with hydraulic mounts, or the type of "hanger"-mount which the 360 mount is. If the rubber has stretched and cracked, the baking won't doo any good because the rubber has already lost it's original form. You can stiffen up common rubber mounts a bit with baking them, but that's only a band aid fix...

Another thing is making your own hard-to-find or NLA rubber bushings and such by vulcanizing. It's quite an easy process, all you need is some suitable rubber sheet material and an oven with a thermostat.

Here's an example of a leaf spring bushing made with this process. Text is in Finnish, but there are good pics.

http://timo.santerihapponen.net/kumi/

For larger bushings and such he uses 5mm Bandag retread rubber sheet originally meant for retreading truck tires and 1mm adhesive rubber sheet for smaller parts. 120 celcius degrees and one hour for curing of 1cm thickness.


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