koren

iTrader: (23)

Hi, everybody!

I had a little problem with my suspension (one side of the car was lower), so I took it to the frame shop to take a look. They said my springs were a little weak, so they put some type of brackets to raise one side a little beat but it didn't help too much...
On top of that I heart some noise under the engine area while driving. Looked under the hood while my friend accelerated and i saw left side of the engine tried to fly away from the engine area )))).
Funny thing is when I dropped the car in the shop I didn't have any problem with it.. May be the shop guy messed it up, may be it was bad already, anyway I need to change the left mounting insulator.
I checked this forum and didn't find any info on how hard it is to do and if I need some special tools to complete this.
Anybody tried to do that before?

Kwame

iTrader: (78)

You will need to be able to raise the side of the engine that you are replacing the engine mount on. You can either use or hoist or maybe a floor jack. People have replaced the engine mounts with the motor still in the car this way. Before I'd go through all this I'd make sure that isn't simply a case of the nut loosening up.

koren

iTrader: (23)

Tanks for a heads up! Will do. I was about to order a new mount...

koren

iTrader: (23)

I checked the engine mount underneath, it is destroyed...

Now I'm facing one problem. There are 2 nuts holding it in place, one on the top and one on the bottom.. The bottom one is easy to remove but i have no idea how to untie the top one. There is no way you can squeeze a ranch in there. I removed the header's shield to get a better visibility but to get the ranch in you need to lift the engine and remove the header.

I'll take pics tomorrow if needed..

Any ideas?

F2CMaDMaXX

iTrader: (2)

Anything come of this?

Is there a guide somewhere to doing this?

Maanlo

+1 ^

koren

iTrader: (23)

I left it in the shop, they did it for me. Wasn't able to do it myself.

3hree5ive0ero

iTrader: (95)

It's not too difficult to do if you're willing to put in some effort.

This is what I did:
-take the headers off
-unbolt the transmission from its mount
-raise the engine from the bottom using a floor jack with a block of wood
-replace the engine mount