ORIGINAL: tele1974
I guess I am confused how the anti vibration mount works. I thought their would be a layer of rubber between the posterior portion of the mount and the fire wall. But from looking through the pictures their is not. And, what is the function of the outer side layer of rubber? If the outer ring is solid wood, guess I don't see were the flex is coming from to take up the vibration. Sounds like you guys are getting good results with it thou. I am just curious how the thing works. From my untrained eye is appears that most of the vibration is reduced from the flex of the anterior ring mounts and then disappated through and to the outer ring. I tried the dubro anti vibration mount with my MT-35 but I don't think it was holding on to my right thrust in higher powered up lines. I needed to do something with the MT-35 because the vibration was horrible.
Thank you for your help... this thread is packed full of great information and very little babble. Awesome! I just wish I had the patience to sit down and read it thoroughly. I know my question is probably answered somewhere in the thread... My AADD usually kicks in and I miss it.
Picture two separate plates, one over the other. Place a thin rubber sheet between them to separate them. Then place a rubber ring, like a rubber band, over their respective edges, capturing both plates. Voila!
The rear plate mounts to the firewall and the front plate to the engine. The two plates a connected to each other via the rubber band and are separated by the rubber sheet. The rubber band is the isolator and the rubber sheet between the two plates is the bumper that keeps the two plates from slapping each other and making noise
Hope that helps; I have a complete thread here on RCU that describes how to do it....but it requires some study to understand how the parst fit and how it works. Several have built one from that thread. Search under MTK