Do these mounts come with the captive/welded nuts on them I have a feeling that you will be going past my place (sort of) later in the week to return these mounts

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Or Phillips head screw drivers - I've a couple of big ones that get use more as pry bars than as screw drivers

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

Hang on , they look different again to some cheap and nasty mounts I've seen , the ones I was thinking of were basically the same as the originals except they would have been perfect for putting a manual engine in an auto subframe .

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There is another with captive nuts in, it fits even worse...
And the threads are cheese, they strip real easy.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

Can't remember if the nuts were captive or not but they were considerably thicker than original and a real pain in the #$@

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That's them.
POS mounts...

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

Hmmmm- the one on the right looks like the pair I just got from a reputable Mini Dealer. So what is the answer ? - where do we get the good ones from?

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

You want genuine ROVER ones. Karcraft stocks them, note they are over 2x the price...

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

Hmmmm, could the dodgy thick ones come in handy to fit a manual motor into a matic subframe?

Are you sure the "5mm" thicker ones are not Austin 1300 ones? -

they are exactly the same but thicker, puting mini ones in a 1300 results in the rhs pot joint coming apart while reversing into carparks on an angle - dont ask how long it took me to figure that out!

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speed costs....how fast do you want to go...

Morris (no Austins here) 1300 or 1100 ones are different, here anyway, the clutch end one is 2 flat plates, not wave shaped like Mini ones.
The rad end has a different setup to a Mini- 2 mounts on the engine front plate, like a Morrie 1000.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

I thought they were the early design mounts from 850s etc? I had always assumed they had been superseded by the wavy ones...I suppose that's why they were still available new for so many years then...

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1100 ones are no good in a Mini, they are not stiff enough laterally and the engine moves more to and for when you nail it or back off..

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

Got some genuine Rover mounts today and compared them to the OEM ones from another Mini Dealer - sorry the pics are blurry - flash was playing up. Genuine has the yellow dot





Easy to see the misalignment of the holes in the second one - and that is NOT parallax.

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

There's a lot of rubber to be saved if they sqeeze the plates up as they do in the cheap ones, I wonder if that is their motive?

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.