Are these bad motor mounts?

dubbsix · May 6, 2007

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 · May 6, 2007

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

88mouse · May 6, 2007

yep there junk

dubbsix · May 6, 2007

Thanks guys.

Roland69 · May 6, 2007

get some polly mounts

HISSIN50 · May 6, 2007

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 · May 7, 2007

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 · May 7, 2007

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 · May 7, 2007

go solid and be done with it.

BigHairyMonkey · May 7, 2007

88mouse said:
go solid and be done with it.

you dont want solid mounts on a daily driver

BigHairyMonkey · May 7, 2007

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

aNotchAbove · May 7, 2007

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 · May 7, 2007

Look up Energy Suspension for mounts.

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

Aliate X · May 7, 2007

holy crap those things are shot man.

dubbsix · May 7, 2007

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 · May 7, 2007

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

88mouse · May 7, 2007

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 · May 7, 2007

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 · May 7, 2007

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 · May 7, 2007

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

Are these bad motor mounts?

dubbsix

Member

Attachments

BlownFiveLiter

have car, will race....wait, it doesn't run

88mouse

New Member

dubbsix

Member

Roland69

Sergeant Tangnet

HISSIN50

"How long does it take to get help in here?

dubbsix

Member

85_SS_302_Coupe

it sucks (I know) to be on the receiving end

88mouse

New Member

BigHairyMonkey

BigHairyMonkey

aNotchAbove

New Member

85_SS_302_Coupe

it sucks (I know) to be on the receiving end

Aliate X

Member

dubbsix

Member

4G-KDMP

88mouse

New Member

ShortThrow50

Member

dubbsix

Member

85_SS_302_Coupe

it sucks (I know) to be on the receiving end

Similar threads

Are these bad motor mounts?

Member

Attachments

have car, will race....wait, it doesn't run

New Member

Member

Sergeant Tangnet

"How long does it take to get help in here?

Member

it sucks (I know) to be on the receiving end

New Member

New Member

it sucks (I know) to be on the receiving end

Member

Member

New Member

Member

Member

it sucks (I know) to be on the receiving end

Similar threads

Privacy & Transparency

Privacy & Transparency