Re: gearbox mount

[Simon Favre <simon@domain.elided>]

Yes, well, there's a fix for that too. If you put a rubber bump stop
on the crossmember so the tranny can't shift fore and aft, the judder
goes away. The softer rubber only makes it worse. This problem was always
there to some extent. I'm told adjustable GM hood bumpers make great
Alfa tranny bump stops. <g>

BTW, heater core tubing is copper. Did you perhaps mean heater hose?

Steve Schaeffer wrote:
...
>When I put that new mount in, my '67 GTV developed a bad case of clutch
>chatter while disengaging the clutch in reverse.  It took me x years to
>discover this,  but it turns out I had to stiffen up that new rubber mount
>by cramming stiff heater core tubing into the interstitial space.  The newer
>mount seems to be made for the hydraulic-clutch cars that followed.  With a
>mechanical clutch linkage, that mount allows to much fore-aft movement of
>the engine/tran in relation to the clutch pedal and it engages/disengages
>the clutch rapidly (chatters) while doing the reverse act...

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