Heya all,
A friend of mine has recently purchased a gun metal 1600 powered by an L18. When the car is running. the whole car vibrates due to the engine vibrating on the mounts. Soes anyone know if you can get some hardened mounts to possibly reduce the vibration, or have a fix for this kind of problem?

thanks

The mounts should stop the vibration.

Unless you have a very lumpy idle.

Check that some knucklehead exhaust guy has mounted the exhaust onto rubber, instead of strapping the exhaust solidly to the body.

Don't laugh..I watched an exhaust guy do this to my car once. I waited until he was finished, and pointed out his stupidity...a problem to which he denied existed.

IS it while driving or idling? If driving, check that the tailshaft is balanced, and that all universal joints are in good shape.

Chris

I haven't actually been for a drive in it yet, I saw it on Sunday last week and he was fighting a bad hangover in the garden while I had a look.

But it was vibrating at idle, enough that when I looked at the engine and tried to look at a particular part or word on the block i was getting a bad headache!

Could just be lumpy idle. OR a broken mount on the engine or gearbox.

But at slow idle, most carbied engines will have a roughness about them, especially 30 year old datsuns. If you are comparing it to a late model EFI engine..then it is a bad comparison.

yeah, my old ute had an A12, then A15 in it and they were much smoother. But one thing I didn't really think about was that it has recently had a 32/36 weber put on it and it hasn't been tuned. I imagine that when it is tuned up correctly that it will run a whole lot more smoothly.

Quote:Huh? The Datsun 1200 exhaust is rubber mounted, nowhere does it mount solidy to the body. At the front, it's bolted to the exhaust manifold (which is rubber mounted via the engine mounts) and at the muffler there are two donut-shaped rubber rings to the body and finally at the rear there is a flexible strap from ex. pipe to the body. Oh, and there is no vibration.