Motor Mounts. Worth it?
08-15-2011, 05:35 PM
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Motor Mounts. Worth it? So Saturday morning I started a motormount/header install. It took most of the day saturday just to get the old exhaust off, but I expected something similar to that. Sunday afternoon I started on the motor mount job.
Right before I started I debated just skipping and putting the headers in, and putting something between the Y and the floorboard, but I pushed that out of my head and began. My buddy that was gonna help had some family stuff come up, so I was by myself. It took about 2 hours to get the MM bolts out, and another 5 to get the clamshells off the motor.
At this point, I was glad I went ahead and did it. The old rubber mounts only took up about 1/3 of the housing, and were rattling like maracas. Once I got the Poly mounts in, they took up the whole thing, and nothing was moving anywhere.
I spent the rest of the night bolting them back to the motor, and I'm bolting the motor in this evening and starting on the headers.
TL, DR: If you're debating skipping the poly mounts when you install headers, don't. I can't imagine how bad it would be if I kept the rubber ones. I'll get pics up as soon as I'm done. I meant to take some side-by-sides of the mounts, but forgot and put the new ones in.
Right before I started I debated just skipping and putting the headers in, and putting something between the Y and the floorboard, but I pushed that out of my head and began. My buddy that was gonna help had some family stuff come up, so I was by myself. It took about 2 hours to get the MM bolts out, and another 5 to get the clamshells off the motor.
At this point, I was glad I went ahead and did it. The old rubber mounts only took up about 1/3 of the housing, and were rattling like maracas. Once I got the Poly mounts in, they took up the whole thing, and nothing was moving anywhere.
I spent the rest of the night bolting them back to the motor, and I'm bolting the motor in this evening and starting on the headers.
TL, DR: If you're debating skipping the poly mounts when you install headers, don't. I can't imagine how bad it would be if I kept the rubber ones. I'll get pics up as soon as I'm done. I meant to take some side-by-sides of the mounts, but forgot and put the new ones in.
