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 Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:40 pm Post subject: New Tool for compressing rubber engine mount. |
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I just finished installing the rubber engine mounts on my Jab-3300. It was quite an experience.
For starters, I looked at the (highly recommended) homebuilt help seminar DVD and learned about Pete's modified C clamp. I made one of those for myself and found it successfully did 3 of the 4 rubber mounts. The last one was hopeless with that tool.
After digging around my shop and consulting my wife, I came across a rusty old Vice Grip locking C clamp I used years ago for holding welding projects. A half hour with the Dremel cutoff tool and a little smoothing with a belt grinder and I got the result I wanted. It works great on the tough engine mount and I assume it would work just as well on the other three.
The little plug is a piece of 9/16 steel rod with a hollow ground in it to hold the clamp in place while pressing on the bolt head. The finished clamp has a relatively flat edge on one leg with a slight "V" shape in the one that mates with the steel plug.
I hope this helps someone else with this nasty little task.
Paul
XL fuselage
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