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A DIY attempt to make a solid engine mount for a renault clio 1.2 16v.
These clios seem to have a woefully vague gear change and the gearstick does a lot of jumping and bopping around, the main reason for it jumping is the rear engine mount or torque reaction link holding the engine and gearbox.
The old mount was the original one and quite perished, but the new one was the same spongy design so i decided to attempt a DIY mod to make it more solid by wedging bits of exhaust hanger rubber into the gaps and filling the mount with tiger seal.
A polybush kit would undoubtably be much better than this, but this method is the cheaper DIY way, and seems to have worked quite well
With the new mount on the gearstick seems to do a lot less jumping about, to be honest i didn't let the tigerseal set fully when i put the mount back into place but as the stuff cured further it got more solid and the gearstick moved even less.
The Nissan primera 1.8 my dad drove until last year also had a similar problem with its gear stick (presumably a great idea shared between nissan and renault was to use this sort of rear engine mount)