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How did you change your motor mounts ?

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Old 07-28-2010, 01:04 AM
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How did you change your motor mounts ?

sbc motor mounts on 3d Gen F-bodies **** me off , its simply a piece of rubber bolted down to the K-member yet they use bolts with nuts hidden inside the darn K-member , and worst of all they make it a PITA to reach the nuts ,they put a big ugly control right in front of them just so you cant acces them . sorry for the rant , but really i would like to hear different methods .
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Re: How did you change your motor mounts ?

It takes time but with a variety of extensions, universals, and universal sockets you can get to them.

Personally If I were to do them again, I would go ahead and pull the A-Arm, im sure they could use new bushings and it would be a great time to do it.
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Re: How did you change your motor mounts ?

Makes you wish they'd just welded a nut to the bottom of the k-member doesn't it?

I bought a cheapo 15mm combo wrench, and heated it with a torch about 1 1/2 - 2" away from the head, and bent it in a vise. You'll know what to do if you look on the car. Between that fabbed tool, a regular 15mm wrench, & a ratchet with extensions & a swivel socket, I could reach all of them. PITA though!
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