Darth Z

A few months ago, my uncle sold his wife' s 94 Z28 A4. Since then the new owner has broken 3 tranny mounts, and keeps bringing the problem back to my uncle to fix. What could be causing this car to break so many tranny mounts? His daughter and her boyfriend used to take it to the track all the time, and never had this problem. This guy hasn' t even owned the car for more than like 6-8 months. Thanks in advance.

BigZee71

iTrader: (5)

Maybe the drivers side motor mount it also bad causing excessive movement.

todddchi

iTrader: (3)

Barring engine mount problems as noted above, neutral drops are the only thing I know of that will kill a transmount that quickly.

Darth Z

Thanks guys I' ll pass it a long for him to check out. My dad was thinking brake-torquing was the culprit, but I don' t see that. How else are you supposed to clean the tires in the burnout box? Besides, the tires will break contact before a tranny mount will break.

lowerthanyou00

iTrader: (8)

the guy is treating the car like ****, but i agree with them check the motor mounts, and if its still a problem throw in a energy suspension one, theyre cheap hard to break, yea itll shake a lil more but he wont be bringin it back, sides did you got any more cars for sale with that type of warranty!!!!!!!

2002_Z28_Six_Speed

iTrader: (19)

Tranny mounts don't just break. The car was made to beat on but your "warranty" shouldn't cover his BS'ing. I know this doesn't solve your problem but the buyer needs to man up and fix his own ****.

Formula413

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Yes he will, when he cracks his tailshaft housing. The stock one should be fine, figure out why they are failing. +1 on checking the motor mounts. And talk to the guy re:driving habits.

shtnfrds

iTrader: (1)

i broke a chit ton in my 93z back when i had it. it's just a rubber mount and he probably nails it from 25-30 mph alot kicking it down to 1st from a roll. tell him to go to autozone and get an anchor mount, they still break but are lifetime warrantee.

and why is your uncle still fixing it for him? He run a shop or just letting this twit take advantage of him?

widnerkj

My 97 used to rip the tranny mount in half, OFTEN. Changed the torque arm, problem eliminated. The old one was bent.