Are these bad motor mounts?

[dubbsix]

I have thrown a few posts about a weird 'miss' i have with my car and someone suggested looking at the motor mounts and the harmonic balancer. The balancer didnt seem to be overly wobbly, but i am ordering a replacement anyhow (good insurance considering the beast has 230K on her)

Can someone give me some verification that is definitely time to change the mounts?

 

[BlownFiveLiter]

Those mounts are beyond shot. There shouldn't be any cracks in them at all.

 

[88mouse]

yep there junk

 

[dubbsix]

Thanks guys.

 

[Roland69]

get some polly mounts

 

[HISSIN50]

If you don't go poly, I'd go with '93 mounts. They're the captured design that was used on verts.

Good luck.

 

[dubbsix]

Poly mounts

Sounds like i should go poly... although my cars not making much HP right now. Im hoping this is the reason why i get a weird vibration at idle.

 

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

Getting a good quality set of mounts will almost feel like you picked up a little power after having blown mounts like that because the car will put more torque through the chassis. You don't need gobs of power to run poly mounts. They're a little expensive but they'll out last stock mounts.

 

[88mouse]

go solid and be done with it.

 

[BigHairyMonkey]

go solid and be done with it.

you dont want solid mounts on a daily driver

 

[BigHairyMonkey]

Also, who sells good poly mounts, this pursuaded me to look over my mounts and i think mine are gone as well.

 

[aNotchAbove]

Mine also look like this, unfortunetely I can't afford to replace them for another few weeks. Any harm in driving a car with mounts like this?

 

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

Look up Energy Suspension for mounts.

http://www.energysuspension.com/pages/must2.html Bottom of page

 

[Aliate X]

holy crap those things are shot man.

 

[dubbsix]

Yea they are really bad. I was glad to see them in this condition because i had no other suspects to check out why my car had such a hard 'miss' (which turned out to be a vibration)

Is it hard to change the mounts? I have limited tools at my disposal and will be doing this in my car port.

 

[4G-KDMP]

it's not hard to change engine mounts even with limited tools.

 

[88mouse]

why don't you want to run solid in a DD? I do not one probablem. Just have to run a rub trans mount. I run the solid don't have to worry about them breaking.

 

[ShortThrow50]

Its funny but on the otherhand not funny that you actually had to ask if those were bad mounts. Thats crazy. Anyway, yeah go poly. I got energy suspension engie and trans mounts

 

[dubbsix]

I know.. i know

Yea i agree it was kind of a stupid question, but when i had my camaro i accused a guy of selling me some jacked up control arms because the bushings had holes in them and i later larned that thats how the bushings came on the A arms on the 4th gen camaro. I just felt dumb.. so i wasnt sure when the mounts on the mustang would be considering bad.

 

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

The bushing on the gaymaro were probably bad too....that's just quality GM engineering