bucwildbob
proud owner # 1662
Re: motor mounts
I appreciate everyones imput. Any tricks to making the job easier prior to me doing it?
I appreciate everyones imput. Any tricks to making the job easier prior to me doing it?
motor mounts
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Don W.
Stab it and steer it
Re: motor mounts
:roll: Everyone here who's done solid mounts has there methods and ideas. I'm happy to share mine as I'm sure others will. It's a job and a half for sure but when done you don't have to worry. IMHO You keep the stock trans mount to allow for twist in the frame. I asked the same question. Everyone said leave it. I thought about doing the left only but decided once in there I didn't want to do "half a job." Besides once I got the right stock mount out I could see it was failing also.
:roll: Everyone here who's done solid mounts has there methods and ideas. I'm happy to share mine as I'm sure others will. It's a job and a half for sure but when done you don't have to worry. IMHO You keep the stock trans mount to allow for twist in the frame. I asked the same question. Everyone said leave it. I thought about doing the left only but decided once in there I didn't want to do "half a job." Besides once I got the right stock mount out I could see it was failing also.
pinellas50
New Guy
Re: motor mounts
There are 2 nut/bolts that run through the frame that you can only access through a hole in the frame. That nut can only be held with the box end of an open/box end wrench. Knowing that would have saved us an hour or two. I had to drop my front diff down but others have said they didn't.
Best advice, get a very good friend to help. If you recruit only a good friend, he is liable to walk out on you after a few hours.
2 1/2 hours?!? You sir are a god! It took my buddy and I 12 hours just on the motor mounts. Not including pulling inner fenders and doing the tranny mount. I put a poly mount on the tranny.MrNurse said:
There are 2 nut/bolts that run through the frame that you can only access through a hole in the frame. That nut can only be held with the box end of an open/box end wrench. Knowing that would have saved us an hour or two. I had to drop my front diff down but others have said they didn't.
Best advice, get a very good friend to help. If you recruit only a good friend, he is liable to walk out on you after a few hours.
dgoodhue
BuSTeD 4.3
Re: motor mounts
2.5 hours Damn that is good. I think it took me and a friend 8 hours to do mine. It took us llike 2.5 mounts just to get a bolts out on the scruntch up passenger side motor mount and 2.5 hours to get pads them to line up properly to drop the engine. Even thing else was cake :roll:
2.5 hours Damn that is good. I think it took me and a friend 8 hours to do mine. It took us llike 2.5 mounts just to get a bolts out on the scruntch up passenger side motor mount and 2.5 hours to get pads them to line up properly to drop the engine. Even thing else was cake :roll:
Re: motor mounts
oh he is a heavy line mechanic at a ford dealship, one day when i used to work with him, he pulled a car in for an engine job that morning and we took it to lunch, when we got back he pulled in another engine job and he drove that one before he left for the day. some one said something about having to label every part, nut and bolt. my brother uses a coffee can. i have yet to see him have an extra bolt left when he is done, unless he finds some in a lifter galley or stuck between a bracket and the block where someone else dropped it. and we pulled the front diff completely out along with the starter, i have the big block starter so that was no big deal, but the front diff will not "fall out" i guarentee it. i just did the zq8 steering box, pitman, and idler last night.......wow what a difference. now i need to look into the sway bars and coilovers. that last bit of side to side in the steering i want to try and get rid of too, any ideas? i already have the solid steering shaft, it feels like it is in the console it self!?!?!
oh he is a heavy line mechanic at a ford dealship, one day when i used to work with him, he pulled a car in for an engine job that morning and we took it to lunch, when we got back he pulled in another engine job and he drove that one before he left for the day. some one said something about having to label every part, nut and bolt. my brother uses a coffee can. i have yet to see him have an extra bolt left when he is done, unless he finds some in a lifter galley or stuck between a bracket and the block where someone else dropped it. and we pulled the front diff completely out along with the starter, i have the big block starter so that was no big deal, but the front diff will not "fall out" i guarentee it. i just did the zq8 steering box, pitman, and idler last night.......wow what a difference. now i need to look into the sway bars and coilovers. that last bit of side to side in the steering i want to try and get rid of too, any ideas? i already have the solid steering shaft, it feels like it is in the console it self!?!?!