last night the gearbox mount was fabricated up. we removed the Gearbox mount form the Almera.
Almera GA14 mount is the one with the odd angle and the Micra mount is the relatively straight one.
So the Almera mount was used due to it being beefier than the Micra one as you can see,
The Almera mount was cut up, The section with the bolt holes was grinding off and offered up to the mount holes on the gearbox. Unfortunately 2 of the 3 holes lined up, but one was a few mm out so the bolt wouldn't go in.... Back to the drawing board (or whiteboard in this case).
This cut section was then used as a template to make a mount from 5mm thick steel. The steel was cut and the holes on the original mount were drilled through onto the steel and with a dremel, the offending small hole was bored out so it could be bolted up.
Once bolted up to the gearbox, the rubber mount and metal holder was cut from the remaining bracket and grinded down to fit into the current micra mount on the chassis. Once this was done, another piece of steel was cut and positioned using magnetic clamps. It was tac welded into place and then removed from the car to be properly welded.
The mount was then giving some extra bracing for strength and fully welded up then bolted back onto the gearbox.
Then slotted a bolt through the mount and chassis and tightened up.
End product of the mount :
Its quite close to the clutch arm, so this may need to be rectified later on once a clutch cable has been fitted
Which resulted in this :
The engine is now sitting in place on its own, no engine hoist, nothing.
So 2 mounts down, 2 to go. The next 2 shouldn't be too hard
yes liam, the welds look shit!
Almera GA14 mount is the one with the odd angle and the Micra mount is the relatively straight one.
So the Almera mount was used due to it being beefier than the Micra one as you can see,
The Almera mount was cut up, The section with the bolt holes was grinding off and offered up to the mount holes on the gearbox. Unfortunately 2 of the 3 holes lined up, but one was a few mm out so the bolt wouldn't go in.... Back to the drawing board (or whiteboard in this case).
This cut section was then used as a template to make a mount from 5mm thick steel. The steel was cut and the holes on the original mount were drilled through onto the steel and with a dremel, the offending small hole was bored out so it could be bolted up.
Once bolted up to the gearbox, the rubber mount and metal holder was cut from the remaining bracket and grinded down to fit into the current micra mount on the chassis. Once this was done, another piece of steel was cut and positioned using magnetic clamps. It was tac welded into place and then removed from the car to be properly welded.
The mount was then giving some extra bracing for strength and fully welded up then bolted back onto the gearbox.
Then slotted a bolt through the mount and chassis and tightened up.
End product of the mount :
Its quite close to the clutch arm, so this may need to be rectified later on once a clutch cable has been fitted
Which resulted in this :
The engine is now sitting in place on its own, no engine hoist, nothing.
So 2 mounts down, 2 to go. The next 2 shouldn't be too hard
yes liam, the welds look shit!
