Engine mounts

Engine mounts

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dalecan

Original Poster:

309 posts

238 months

As I’m doing a bunch of winter maintenance on the chim I noticed cracking in the drivers side engine mount. So I decided to change them both as it’s likely they are original. There’s no mention of them being done in any of the service docs I have.
Glad I changed them as the drivers side was complete separated from the metal. The passenger side still looked great.
What a bh of a job though!


Polly Grigora

10,694 posts

96 months

Nice

Daryl357

11 posts

146 months

Oh dear I plan on doing this soon. What made it such a chore?

dalecan

Original Poster:

309 posts

238 months

Tuesday
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There’s not much clearance for the studs to come out. A few people remove the bracket as well, but I didn’t. In hindsight maybe I should’ve. I used an engine hoist and when I lifted the engine and removed both mounts the engine rotated and the starter motor shorted on the chassis. Just be careful of that.

Sardonicus

18,696 posts

208 months

Slacken all the mount studs (not mount brackets to block bolts) then change one at a time by tilting side your replacing, must have changed half a dozen sets from poly to OE style like this never any issues , tight clearance yes but all easy enough