Need more light

[Phil@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <3.0.2.16.19970818101316.4baf5eac@pop.flash.net> Tony Lum writes:

> At 10:44 AM 8/18/97 GMT, you wrote:
>
> >Anyway, the upper left (this is a UK driver's door, remember) and lower
> >left mounting bolts had sheared from the motor housing.  Only the single
> >right bolt was holding the motor in place.  Anyone seen this failure
> >mode?

> Phil,
>
> Sure happens all the time.  The rubber isolated bolts gradually tear from
> torque and seperate from the rubber completely.  Common sight when I'm
> scouring the junkyards.  Also happens to the rubber isolators on the radiator.

I'd been wondering if over-torquing the mounting bolts had any effect.

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