83.5 and later diesel Vanagons have no rubber bushings on tubular engine carrier mounts. Prior models had them (as does my '82). Look on my website for discussion on these points. Alistair -- '82 Westy -> diesel converted to gas in '94 albell@uvic.ca http://members.shaw.ca/albell
on 23/2/03 2:14 pm, SyncroWesty wrote: > I believe that someone else, Karl from Westy Ventures mabye, was saying that > he solved the vibration by welding the left side engine carrier where it > meets the frame. There is a rubber bushing on the left engine carrier in a > Tiico setup that is not there on the right side carrier, or on either > carrier in a Diesel Vanagon. He somehow overrode that carrier bushing, and > made a fixed connection to the frame. No more vibrations. > > Again it seems counter intuitive to solve a vibration problem by removing > and/or stiffining the current tiico bushing and mounts. But it seems there > are at least two account of it working. > > Cheers, > > Cory |
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