Installed new motor mounts today

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Installed new motor mounts today

April 02, 2006, 12:13:13 AM

Got 'em on but not without a fight. They fit the engine and crossmember perfectly and thank goodness Chuck did such a good job engineering these things because there is no room for error here. I'm also glad my heads were off the car and I had loosend my headers. I feel sorry for anyone changing thier mounts with a fully dressed engine. This is definitely a 2 man job requiring a long pry bar.

By the way, when I took off my old driver side mount it came off in 2 pieces. I didn't even know it was broken. I'll post up some pics later. My camera was set on 1024X768 when I took pics so the file size is too big.

Installed new motor mounts today

Reply #1 – April 02, 2006, 04:13:24 AM

Yeah, it seems the stock mounts break rather easily, I hope to have something other than the stock mounts soon, or else another engine that uses a different mount

Installed new motor mounts today

Reply #2 – April 02, 2006, 10:13:51 AM

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By the way, when I took off my old driver side mount it came off in 2 pieces.

Probably looked something like:
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Installed new motor mounts today

Reply #3 – April 02, 2006, 02:26:05 PM

Yep, that's exaclty what it looked like. I'm glad I got in on the first batch of Chuck's 5.0 mounts. These should last the life of the car. They're pretty heavy duty parts. Quite a bit lighter than the stock mounts too. Especially when you take into account the drivers side tranny brace that I chunked. Here's some pics of the new mounts installed:

Installed new motor mounts today

Reply #4 – April 02, 2006, 02:35:13 PM

Looks great.
The next step is getting rid of that Fram filter.
:D

Installed new motor mounts today

Reply #5 – April 03, 2006, 01:10:01 AM

I jsut replaced my mounts, they lasted 18 years, stocks teh way to go. hydraulic too, and it looked EXACTLY like that lol fell into two pieces, but when we were jackin up the engine, the other one exploded( right side) and a lot of brown water cameout..so i guess they were both done lol but they are one major pain in the ars! my knuckles haven't healed yet lol and i had my headers on too!