top mounts and bearings

[Oracle]

I don't have a 16mm drill bit or a vice or the ability to assemble the units with springs to check the fitment myself after modifying. It's booked into the garage for Monday to get the dampers fitted so I don't intend to muck about with something that was never a problem, I just wanted fresh parts while the dampers were getting changed and didn't think they'd be so unfit for purpose out the box.

When you say original top covers with nuts...are they one piece items with an integrated nut?

Affirmative.

I would guess the garage has a vice and a drill bit though,

 

[Oracle]

I’m a bit lost with this and I’m starting to question if I even have the correct top nuts - I have genuine Renault’s top mounts fitted but can someone tell me what the nut is -

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If the nut pictured is a separate item from the top cap, it is from the updated modification kit 543A09780R.

It should not make contact with the top of the turret if everything is assembled correctly.

 

[photo_ed]

If the nut pictured is a separate item from the top cap, it is from the updated modification kit 543A09780R.

It should not make contact with the top of the turret if everything is assembled correctly.

Is that 'Barn Find Dust'?

 

[Oracle]

Is that 'Barn Find Dust'?

Very good.

"Daily driver dust" I`m afraid.

 

[photo_ed]

Very good.

"Daily driver dust" I`m afraid.

Haha! Fair enough..

 

[Patrick Bateman]

Can someone just confirm the correct orientation of the thrust bearing please?-

 

[hoolio]

As far as I can remember, as per the first picture.

Old style

 

[Patrick Bateman]

Thanks, if anyone wants to back that up please go ahead.

For what it's worth the bearings definitely want to fit nicely in that way, they're on the tight side the other way.

 

[NickReilly063]

This is what went on mine - they look old style too to me -

 

[Patrick Bateman]

I was meaning the bearing orientation only.

 

[hoolio]

Patrick, as you say the thrust bearing sits easier with the flat side sitting on top the spring plate.

Nick, yours is different again to the version in my pic, which is the original. You have the bearing that sits on the spring plate, then the doughnut sits on that. The brass insert then slides inside the doughnut and the whole assembly is then secured to the damper with that little ring nut. The “top hat?” Is then screwed onto the damper end once it is raised through the turret.