Engine Swap Everything about swapping an engine into your Third Gen.....be it V6, V8, LTX/LSX, crate engine, etc. Pictures, questions, answers, and work logs.
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hi all, I just finished a v6 to v8 swap with a couple of friends and as the sticky said colorful words were exchanged as we were trying to install the v8 engine mounts then I got an interesting idea to feed the new bolts in place. I found that if you feed a piece of heat shrink (i think it was about 7/16 diameter, 3 foot Long, before shrinking and use the clear because its usually thinner walled) through the hole to be bolted (mount and frame) then insert the bolt into the end of the heat shrink comming out the bottom of the frame and shrink the tubing around the bolt now pull the tubing up through the frame and mount then place either and open end wrench or socket(depending on the position of the bolt) over the head of the bolt and pull off the heat shrink and thread the nut over the bolt (do not tighten untill all bolts are through). The bolts are upside down from how the fatory had them but everything seems to clear fine! It saves lots of time and is pretty easy! Hope this helps!
I just did mine recently. I fed a piece of fishing line down throught the hole and tied it just on the last thread of the bolt, the pulled it up through the hole. Worked real good.
i did mine... and it was a huge pain... 2 were very simple (bottom and one of the tops)... the other top one i had to get a wrench and put through the round hole and keep poking the bolt into the nut, but i eventually got it! =)
hi all, I just finished a v6 to v8 swap with a couple of friends and as the sticky said colorful words were exchanged as we were trying to install the v8 engine mounts then I got an interesting idea to feed the new bolts in place. I found that if you feed a piece of heat shrink (i think it was about 7/16 diameter, 3 foot Long, before shrinking and use the clear because its usually thinner walled) through the hole to be bolted (mount and frame) then insert the bolt into the end of the heat shrink comming out the bottom of the frame and shrink the tubing around the bolt now pull the tubing up through the frame and mount then place either and open end wrench or socket(depending on the position of the bolt) over the head of the bolt and pull off the heat shrink and thread the nut over the bolt (do not tighten untill all bolts are through). The bolts are upside down from how the fatory had them but everything seems to clear fine! It saves lots of time and is pretty easy! Hope this helps!
John
What and where did you get the motor mount ? did you get the motor and tranny mount kit ? im right behind you about the swap.
I just switched motor mounts yesterday. It was not as bad as everyone was making it out to be. That may be because i have smaller hands though. I just pulled out one bolt that connected the A arm, in the spot that was blocking access to the bolts. From there the A arm droped down and i was able to get my hands in there and secure a wrench on it and use impact wrench on top. The only hard part was jacking the A arm back up and getting the bolt back through.
It took maybe an hour for each mount, at the most, and this was completly by myself. So i would say just go for it and do it the old fashion way. Also, i got my mounts at AdvanceAuto for 8 bucks a peice.
Pretty soon, I'll be swapping my V6 to V8 mounts so I'm going to be doing all this.
I haven't looked at them yet, but trying to visualize the process of using the heat shrink, and not getting it. Does anyone have any pics of the process?
