Hi
Your avatar shows a roundie ?? Is that what you have ???
The engine stay that your arrowing was fitted to clubbies and others with rod change gearboxes because the remote type gearhift housing player a role in stopping engine movement. The rod change, by comparision, was an accountants design and didn't assist in stopping engine movement.
So a second engine stay was added and it was also an accountant design. This is what you have.
Now - you do need to check the rubbers on the stay and if they are at all in doubt then replace them - they are peanuts to buy. You dont want great globs of silicon floating around in the engine waterways or in radiator either so get rid of it.
Spend bit of time cleaning the thermostat housing and making sure its mating surface is clean and flat. The same for each of the other mating surfaces also. Then reassemble using the aviation type gasket goo the doesn't harden between the gaskets ad the mating surfaces. Tension it all down equally, fill up the radiator and warm the engine while looking for leaks. If it leaks start again and find and fix the leak.
Now if secondary engine stay have worn rubbers, so does the one next to and above the clutch housing - replace them too.
Mike
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