turbomopar87
04-19-2006, 06:53 PM
this is kinda hard to explain, but if you know know you're 2.2's you will be able to help me. Car is an 87 shelby Z...
I have been having trouble with ripping through cv boots like crazy on my passenger side, the boot rubs on the a-arm. I thought it was a bent k -frame, and was told the same from a local shop when i had them look at it. I did get in a small accident, didnt think it was enough to bend the k-frame.
When Gary Donovan came over my house to drop a car off i bought, he looked at my motor and said my passenger side motor mount was up-side down. This made sense in a way, and he is very experienced so i figured he is right.
Well today i jacked the motor up and flip the mount over. It was barand new mount last year when i built the motor (got the motor in the car in march 05) Its a poly mount from FWD-P. When i put it back on now, the top of the mounting bracket off the block has 1" of space from the top of the actual poly mount! WTF?!?! I looked at my 86 C/S and that mount doesnt have that much room, it has maybe 1/4".
Now when you look at a poly mount while its out, there are 2 "bubbles" of the black poly sticking out each side. These are now on the TOP. They are on the top on the stock mount in my C/S also.
Why does this mount sit so damn funny? Will it go back to normal after it sits and the poly gets some weight on it in the opposite direction? I am so confused. The axel clears the a-arm now, but the mount looks absurdly wrong.
I really want to put a pic up, but i dont have a camera around, my sister has it and is in Spain. I will try and get a pic tomaro.
someone please help...i am regitering the car on fri and havn't had it on the road since fall...I WANNA DRIVE IT!!!
I have been having trouble with ripping through cv boots like crazy on my passenger side, the boot rubs on the a-arm. I thought it was a bent k -frame, and was told the same from a local shop when i had them look at it. I did get in a small accident, didnt think it was enough to bend the k-frame.
When Gary Donovan came over my house to drop a car off i bought, he looked at my motor and said my passenger side motor mount was up-side down. This made sense in a way, and he is very experienced so i figured he is right.
Well today i jacked the motor up and flip the mount over. It was barand new mount last year when i built the motor (got the motor in the car in march 05) Its a poly mount from FWD-P. When i put it back on now, the top of the mounting bracket off the block has 1" of space from the top of the actual poly mount! WTF?!?! I looked at my 86 C/S and that mount doesnt have that much room, it has maybe 1/4".
Now when you look at a poly mount while its out, there are 2 "bubbles" of the black poly sticking out each side. These are now on the TOP. They are on the top on the stock mount in my C/S also.
Why does this mount sit so damn funny? Will it go back to normal after it sits and the poly gets some weight on it in the opposite direction? I am so confused. The axel clears the a-arm now, but the mount looks absurdly wrong.
I really want to put a pic up, but i dont have a camera around, my sister has it and is in Spain. I will try and get a pic tomaro.
someone please help...i am regitering the car on fri and havn't had it on the road since fall...I WANNA DRIVE IT!!!