Engine Mount
Hello,
Looking into engine mounts for my current F-body build. I would like to stay away from solid mounts. I bough poly mounts and did not realize that they use the factory metal casing. I am somewhat against that.
Is there any other options? Thanks.
Looking into engine mounts for my current F-body build. I would like to stay away from solid mounts. I bough poly mounts and did not realize that they use the factory metal casing. I am somewhat against that.
Is there any other options? Thanks.
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Apparently there is some halfway ghetto thing people are doing. Putting urethane windshield sealant around the stock rubber in the mounts and letting it harden. Has anyone here tried that?
Any links to somebody who has done that? Aircraft panel/seam sealant would work great for something like this, but I am not sure how well it would bond to the rubber, and it would definitely stand up to the heat considering we use it for engine nacelle panels. Sounds ghetto, but if it works and wasn't as extreme feeling as a solid mount (I had Spohn solids in two cars) or transmitted vibrations like poly mounts it might be worth a shot. Worst case scenario, you scrape it out and install rubber or poly.
I've not seen it done on f bodies, just some guy on a 240 forum mentioned doing it. Be a pioneer and do it man! I'm doing mounts in my car soon but I will not be making the effort twice to take them out, urethane them, test them then either keep them or install my polys.
Plus it would be best to do it with new rubber mounts because it is already in the correct position, once they wear they start to jostle around and it would be difficult to get it to fit right.
Plus it would be best to do it with new rubber mounts because it is already in the correct position, once they wear they start to jostle around and it would be difficult to get it to fit right.
You can buy liquid urethane kits just for that purpose.
http://www.energysuspensionparts.com...sp?prod=DIYMMI
http://www.energysuspensionparts.com...sp?prod=DIYMMI
I swapped back to the stock rubber also just to get rid of the vibration. I don't think using the stock clamshells again is a problem just make sure that the rivits are replaced with bolts.
Believe it or not the poly engine mounts transfer very little additional vibration, it's the poly trans mount that's normally the culprit.
Last edited by 99Bluz28; Feb 10, 2013 at 01:18 PM.