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Re: Motor mount questions Posted by Ari [Email]  (#2847) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Ari) on Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:47:49
In Reply to: Motor mount questions, Brian Z, Mon, 12 Mar 2001 10:48:54 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
The mounts sit in holes in the subframe. If you look under the car, you'll see two cylindrical shapes sticking down under the subframe - those are the bottoms of the motor mounts. On the front mount, there is a bracket that bolts over the mount. You need to remove it to get the mount out, so yes, it comes off. Basically, if the engine moves a lot, the top of the mount hits a metal 'tongue' on the bracket. The ideal is to make that tongue bigger, so the top of the mount would hit it sooner. To cushion the blow, you use something like rigid rubber - AC hose is best.
I wouldn't sweat the difference between 1/2 inch and 3/4 inch. Use the hose you can get a hold of. The amount of travel will depend on how rigid the rubber is and how much slamming around the engine is doing. Frankly, unless you're doing speed shifts and dumping the clutch, you don't get enough engine movement to hit the stops, even if you reduce them with this fix.
Once you get in there, it makes a lot more sense. The bracket is fixed to the subframe, and the top of the engine mount moves. You want to do something that reduces the clearance between the top of the mount and the bottom of the bracket. Knowing this, you can use whatever comes to hand in your garage - AC hose, hose clamps, butcher's string.
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