Broken Motor Mounts Options

[914Bryan]

I decided to replace the transmission and motor mounts today to further help remedy the sloppy shifting. The old transmission mounts were cracked and I replaced them with the 911 mounts from Pelican. I was a bit concerned that there were no rubber tabs on top where the flange rests like were on the stock ones, but these are what they recommended. They went in pretty easy.

Now the engine mounts. Dropped the cross brace and the mounts almost fell out. I noticed that one of the mounts did not have a lower bolt that attaches to the the cross brace. The upper stud was still attached to the bracket and I could see that they were cracked in two. It looks like the engine was only resting on the rubber stubs and not actually attached.



Both motor mounts are like this. What a bitch getting the top of the mount out. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/hissyfit.gif) Had to remove all the heating tubes and I removed the mounting bracket so I could get at the top nut. Is this a common thing? The replacement motor mount studs look very whimpy and I wonder if this is going to happen again. Any recomendations before I put it all back together again?