Just got done changing engine mounts and man was that tough. Two guys 4.5 hrs.

Auggie

 

You can do it yourself in about an hour if you only undo one bolt on each side.

 

Man, do I wish you were here when we did this. Did the drivers side first then the pass side.

Auggie

 

How do you remove an engine mount held by 3 bolts by just removing one?
It took me 6 Hours to do it by myself! I also did the trans mount, Oil, Oil filter and new spark plugs.

But 1 week later both mounts are broken! don't ask me how.

 

Yah, I would like to know too???

Auggie

 

By not removing the mount.

Remove the lower nut and bolt on each side, drill or grind out the lower rivets, pry the mount apart just enough to slide the old mount out and replace it with a new poly mount, squeeze the mount back together and hold it in place with vice grips or C clamps or whatever works, drop the bolts in from above, use super glue to hold the nut in an open-ended wrench while you turn the bolt to get the threads started, torque to satisfaction, lower the car.

 

Hay, thats pretty good. Will that only work with the poly inserts??

Auggie

 

It will only work with some sort of insert. If you're using a stock rubber mount that comes already enclosed in the metal shell, you'd have to take all 3 bolts out.

 

Yah, thats what I thought. Thank you.

Auggie

 

Arnt the rubber mounts ment to be fixed to the metal housing because my stock replacements the rubber has come loose and the engine is now on a slope.

 

They're not fixed, they're just squeezed between the two metal halves.

 

soo if my RHS (aussie drivers side) is sitting low in the mount and the LHS is sitting higher in the mount it is normal?

Sorry about the quality, camera phones + dark don't mix well, But here are the 2 mounts:

RHS: http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...nginemount.jpg

LHS: http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...nginemount.jpg

 

Have you got the clamshells bolted to the engine on the right sides?

 

I never changed them (it was like that when i got it) i just swaped new mounts in. Why do they look wrong?