Poly gearbox stabaliser mount... anyone interested?
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 1:52 pm
Does anyone else find that the engine/gearbox shunts backwards and forwards as you change gear etc....
Its worse in traffic where you leave the car in 1st gear and try to lift off the accelerator or press it down, you get a thump/jerk as the gearbox engine swing on its mount......
The cause of this appears to be the lower stabaliser which has too much flop in it.... I cant see the point in this slop...atall! Its annoying, especially as the gearlever moves around as well!
(this is the part under the car that looks like a potatoemasher... it links the bottom of the gearbox to the subframe at the bottom behind the engine, its job is to hold the engine/gearbox straight when you accelerate... it fails at this job!)
My plan is to replace the current lower stabaliser mount with a modified item with polybushes in the middle to greatly reduce the movement in the bush, it will also have the added side effect of preventing wheelspin by preventing the engine from "tramping" on its mounts...
It will still isolate the car from the engine/gearbox, but will be MUCH tighter than Vws rubber cack!
I am just in the process of putting one together for my car to test, but would anyone else be interested in a poly conversion kit for their lower stabaliser bar? if I do a parts only kit it will be around £55+postage... or I could do an exchange service whereby you send me your mount and I strip it down and do the modification required....(I cant decide if I am going to weld some bracing onto the existing mount at the same time to resist twisting...)
If there are any takers let me know.... if there are a couple of people who want a discount to "test" the first batch.... I might be able to sort soemthing out
Its a fairly easy part to remove from the car once you have it jacked up...
Its worse in traffic where you leave the car in 1st gear and try to lift off the accelerator or press it down, you get a thump/jerk as the gearbox engine swing on its mount......
The cause of this appears to be the lower stabaliser which has too much flop in it.... I cant see the point in this slop...atall! Its annoying, especially as the gearlever moves around as well!
(this is the part under the car that looks like a potatoemasher... it links the bottom of the gearbox to the subframe at the bottom behind the engine, its job is to hold the engine/gearbox straight when you accelerate... it fails at this job!)
My plan is to replace the current lower stabaliser mount with a modified item with polybushes in the middle to greatly reduce the movement in the bush, it will also have the added side effect of preventing wheelspin by preventing the engine from "tramping" on its mounts...
It will still isolate the car from the engine/gearbox, but will be MUCH tighter than Vws rubber cack!
I am just in the process of putting one together for my car to test, but would anyone else be interested in a poly conversion kit for their lower stabaliser bar? if I do a parts only kit it will be around £55+postage... or I could do an exchange service whereby you send me your mount and I strip it down and do the modification required....(I cant decide if I am going to weld some bracing onto the existing mount at the same time to resist twisting...)
If there are any takers let me know.... if there are a couple of people who want a discount to "test" the first batch.... I might be able to sort soemthing out
Its a fairly easy part to remove from the car once you have it jacked up...
