Shop Time to Replace Engine Mount

[itsnotanova]

It also depends on if you're going with the whole replacement engine mount ($170) or just the center mount you press into your old aluminum bracket($36.25). I've always gone the cheap route and did it myself with the press in replacement mount. If I were paying a shop to do it at $60-200 an hour, then I would possibly go with the whole replacement engine mount.

[Geof3]

Originally Posted by itsnotanova

It also depends on if you're going with the whole replacement engine mount ($170) or just the center mount you press into your old aluminum bracket($36.25). I've always gone the cheap route and did it myself with the press in replacement mount. If I were paying a shop to do it at $60-200 an hour, then I would possibly go with the whole replacement engine mount.

One slight bonus of doing the whole mount is the 997 mount is slightly different. My concern when I did mine was no pressing the bushing in perfectly and preloading the mount a bit. I don’t have the proper tools to press something that big. I thought about having a shop press it, but by the time I paid for that, etc I just decided to go for the whole thing. Then I sold the old mount...

[itsnotanova]

Originally Posted by Geof3

I don’t have the proper tools to press something that big. I thought about having a shop press it, but by the time I paid for that, etc I just decided to go for the whole thing. Then I sold the old mount...

Proper tools?!? What's that? Heck I just used a bench vice for my wife's boxster and my boxster. My friend and I used some blocks of wood, a floor jack and the weight from his travel trailer to push his in.

[78F350]

Originally Posted by itsnotanova

Proper tools?!? What's that? Heck I just used a bench vice for my wife's boxster and my boxster. My friend and I used some blocks of wood, a floor jack and the weight from his travel trailer to push his in.

About a year ago, I was doing two engine mounts. I tried the first one with a block of wood and BFH. It went just a little crooked and got ugly fast. Next I took them both to a local shop on a slow day and he did them both for $25. Next time, I'm going straight to the shop.