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Subject: Re: [Mgs] Broken motor mount bracket
From: Max Heim <mvheim@sonic.net>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:16:46 -0700
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Just old, I guess. Don't believe there is any pattern of failure with these.

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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Menlo Park, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires


on 3/25/12 6:36 PM, Peter Schauss at rpschauss@gmail.com wrote:

> I drove my MGB to work Friday.  While coming back from my lunch break, I
> noticed that the gear shift pattern seemed to have moved to the right.
> Then, as I was driving home it, became progressively more and more difficult
> to shift into third and fourth gears.  Finally, as I got off of the parkway,
> about a mile from home, it would not go into third or fourth at all.
> 
> When I put the car up on the lift, I discovered that bracket which holds the
> right hand motor mount to the engine had broken into three pieces.
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/75758245@N00/7016009235/in/photostream
> 
> I am guessing that this was metal fatigue, but what would have caused this?
> 
> Is it a common problem with MGs of this vintage?
> 
> FWIW, my MG is a 1980 'B with about 113k miles on it.  I bought it 20+ years
> ago when it had 38k miles on it.  The engine has been out three times, once
> for a new clutch, once for to replace the gearbox with a used o/d gearbox,
> and once to replace the used o/d gearbox with a rebuilt one.  I replaced all
> of the rubber engine and gearbox mounts, but not the brackets, in 1999 when
> I did the first gearbox swap.
> 
> Any thoughts would be welcome.
> 
> Peter Schauss
> 1980 MGB
> _______________________________________________


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Menlo Park, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
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