Hello all! Does anyone have some good photos of the OEM engine mounts, and OEM transmission mount for the XJR6? I'd like to see what the original looks like so I have a good, engineered starting point to model after for fabricating my own. Thank you!

 

Hello, Use the front mounts including the plates from a 1995 to 1996 Jaguar XJS and you won't have to do any fabrication at all. What are you using for a transmission? What are you building?

Thank you.

Larry Louton

 

Engine and trans (5-speed Getrag) are going in a Datsun, so I definitely need to fabricate.

 

IF it is only the rubber part that you are interestedI might just spend the ~20 USD for the engine mount (and freight) and have something that one can go back and measure if and when questions come up
https://www.rockauto.com/en/catalog/...tor+mount,5552

The manual gearbox mount be a bit difficult to find, but maybe some other car/model mount could be obtained more easily as I am guessing you are more interested on the tail end of the gearbox interface than the chassis side?

 

I was trying to confirm which style the engine had, google/ebay shows two. One is a simple hard rubber mount like the one from Rock Auto there, while the other looks like an oil-filled hydraulic type:



I've never actually worked on an XJR6 car, so I've never seen which it came with. Also interested in how the base was designed, and if it went to the frame, or the front subframe.

Rear mount seems fairly straightforward, if a bit over-engineered. Seems the trans sits on a system that has dual springs separated by a rubber bushing. That tells me Jaguar didn't find a big need for torsional support at the end of the trans, so I just need to make a bar with a perch for it to sit on, and get a decent mount back there.

The torque the engine makes has to go somewhere. I'm hesitant to toss the simple rubber mounts up front without knowing for sure that they can handle it.

 

the simple rubber block/buck is the one used in x300 cars (and in XJS)

you can have a look also on engine mount for illustration of the total parts

and for example the pic attached to here shows you how the parts are located in front subframe

 

Excellent. I tend not to trust part diagrams until they can be confirmed as accurate. Been burned a few times by diagrams being simplified or slightly different.

That pretty much answers my question though, thank you. I should be able to make up a mount pretty easily, and stuff the rubber sandwich in. Thanks again!