Engine Mount removal...?

[fu03steve]

how much work does this takes?
about how long?

[CJ_Boxster]

Originally Posted by fu03steve

how much work does this takes?
about how long?

Took me about 2 hours on a lift. about 5 minutes to clean & fill the mount with urethane, then 20 minutes for it to sit in the sun... then install it

[fu03steve]

you think I can go to your dad's shop one of these days to work on it...
and I need to tight my exhaust and perhaps headers because there's a leak...

if that's okay with him and not too far from me!!

[CJ_Boxster]

Originally Posted by fu03steve

you think I can go to your dad's shop one of these days to work on it...
and I need to tight my exhaust and perhaps headers because there's a leak...

if that's okay with him and not too far from me!!

Sorry Steve, My father is the head mechanic and not the owner... Owner allows me to work on my car cause he likes me and I do work on there systems from time to time. Buy yourself some rhino ramps dude!

[fu03steve]

no place to put them


got an apartment
!!
got enough junk already!!

[John V]

Originally Posted by CJ_Boxster

Took me about 2 hours on a lift. about 5 minutes to clean & fill the mount with urethane, then 20 minutes for it to sit in the sun... then install it

The urethane instructions suggest that it takes 24 hours to fully cure. I wouldn't want to install it prior to the urethane fully curing.

[insite]

i baked mine to accelerate the cure time.

[CJ_Boxster]

Originally Posted by John V

The urethane instructions suggest that it takes 24 hours to fully cure. I wouldn't want to install it prior to the urethane fully curing.

anyone can do what they feel comfortible with doing since its there car, Me on the other hand had no choice but to install the mount after the outter surface hardened 20-40 minutes later since this is my only car and theres no way i'd let my baby spend the night in a mechanics shop unless a last minute clutch, transmission or engine swap was in order. To each his own!

[derb]

Besides looking at the mount after removing it, can you look at the mount as installed and tell if it has failed?
Regards,
mike

[CJ_Boxster]

Hmmm, not really cause its got these rubber flaps that shroud around the mount so you cant really see it, You'd have to remove it... If you have a hard time accelerating without grinding 2nd gear while you shift, Chances are that your engine mount is bad.

[derb]

Thanks CJ.
No problem from 1st to 2nd gear. I just have the occasional grinding when shifting from 2nd to 3rd. Synchro?

[John V]

Originally Posted by CJ_Boxster

anyone can do what they feel comfortible with doing since its there car, Me on the other hand had no choice but to install the mount after the outter surface hardened 20-40 minutes later since this is my only car and theres no way i'd let my baby spend the night in a mechanics shop unless a last minute clutch, transmission or engine swap was in order. To each his own!

I would think anyone would want to do a job one time properly rather than do it once and have to do it again because they were rushing. Like you said, though, to each his own.