Morris Minor Owners Club

For sale, never used. Great nick. £25 plus postage (probably something like £7).

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how's your engine running after what looks like new ESM mounts fitted?

both Svenedin and myself had horrible vibrations and i had to search out 2nd hand rubbers to get rid of it....

I'm currently pickling the hard esm ones whilst I have the nice second hand ones installed in case I ever need another set in future. Pet posts above, I got them to 55-60 shore, but was worried that was just outer rubber and needs longer to get to the core. We should all contact esm though, as their...

it's a really strange one - on all the online exemption checkers both my Morris' show as ULEZ exempt but required to pay congestion - never had a charge for either. will check out the Warlingham show - always up for finding ones closer to London - although getting to that part of south london normal...

aaah, nice - good to hear yours runs fine too. btw - where are you in surrey? (im in bethnal green) planning on going to Waterloo Classics this weekend - contrary to popular belief, our cars are exempt from both ULEZ and congestion charge. have been driving for years through central, with autopay en...

check the dashpot to make sure there's oil in there - lumpy under accelleration can be caused by the carb dashpot being dry

enjoy!! weirdly i replaced the head separately last year, along with the rocker assembly, push rods and followers and it's been a little rattly ever since (about 1 year now, albeit with minimal miles), especially when cold i'm also loving not having leaks and, when i take it on the first long run, h...

yes, the difference is mostly at idle and pullaway revs up to maybe 5-10mph in first under the old mounts. lots of vibration in the body and even through the accelerator pedal. new softer mounts are night and day to be honest. this engine now has a new reconditioned head, reground crank and bearings...

DONE!

New (old) mounts have been installed in place of the horribly hard ESM ones - everything is smooth as now.

The shore of the second hand ones i got were 45-50 btw.

update, have managed to source some second hand engine mounts via Colin, who advertised 1098 spares in last months minor matters.

now to fit these and hope the vibration goes away!

Durometer reading of esm mounts after 25hours in solution

i highly recommend using wintergreen/surgical mix to soften the rubber in that case. I'm not sure how deep the softening has penetrated into the rubber though, but it's certainly helped soften it up

If they're anything like the ones I had installed - you definitely won't like it unfortunately. However, the esm ones are out the pickling jar after 24 hours in the wintergreen/surgical spirit mix and the shore (at least on the outside bits) has gone from 65-70 to 55-65. So, I'm going to leave in fo...

mobylette wrote: ↑Wed Mar 26, 2025 11:55 am Have you checked the head steady?

yes - it's neutral, but might slacken off more to see if it does anything

aah, that's a shame.

good to know that the ESM ones are much harder (around 20% assuming the scale is linear!) than the proper ones. Hopefully my wintergreen concoction will soften these up, if not - drill time!

do you have any BMC mounts that you'd be willing to part with for a fee Phil?

splitting this off from the other thread as engine mounts are a significant diversion from the original topic! Currently having really unpleasant vibrations after changing the engine mounts, primarily at a very specific rev range which is pretty much from idle to about 10mph in 1st gear. I've bought...

Comparing the two side by side, the eBay seller ones are slightly softer and also are of a slightly more curved shape.

I wonder if the little extra hardness from the esm ones (currently fitted) and their slightly less curved shape alare causing the rattle?

so, i've ordered mounts from two suppliers (one ESM another on ebay) along with a durometer. Both appear to be too hard - according to other posts on here, they should be around 60 shoreA, but i'm getting readings of around 65-70 on the ESM ones and similar ish on ebay ones. I think i might need to ...