Rear Mounts

[James_Douglas]

While I am waiting on parts for the trans...I changed the leaking rear main seal and the pan gasket to see if I can slow it down to a weep...

I have a set of freshly vulcanized Steele motor mounts I want to swap in. Can some one tell me how the heck you get the rear upper mounts out?

It has that large fender washer with a tube welded to it facing downward. I cannot get the bell housing up enough or shifted to the side enough to get the top mount out.

There must be a trick that is passing me by. I seem to remember that someone said that you have to take a hack saw and cut the tube clear of the washer.

Can anyone confirm?

Best, James

[DonaldSmith]

I'm trying to remember how I removed mine and where the photos are.

Is your floor panel out? You will need the clearance to get the bolt out. Then the upper mount has to come up the thickness of the lower mount so that the tube will clear.

If I find my photos, I'll have more information.

[DonaldSmith]

Ooh! Ooh! I remember now! I took the motor mounts out when the transmission was out. Otherwise, I could not have jacked up the bellhousing enough so that the tube through the upper mount would clear the crossmember.

I took out the motor mounts to cobble them. For some reason the back of the transmission always seemed too high, making removal and installation extremely difficult. With the rear mounts being 2/3 the way back on the motor-trans assembly, a quarter-inch difference at the mounts would be three-eights at the back of the transmmission. On the other hand, a quarter inch difference at the front mount would mean only one-eighth inch difference at the back of the transmission.

I cut out a quarter inch from each upper part of the rear mounts and added the piece to the lower mount. I took the tube-washer gizmo out of the rubber piece so I could hacksaw through the rubber.