Re: [AMC-List] Engine Mount Frustration

[Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Last time I put the 4.0L in the American, I put the engine and trans in without the mounts or plates nolted up. Then pushed the engine over to the drivers side and dropped the passenger mount into the hole in the crossmember then fought the three bolts into the engine. Then I repeated the process on the drivers side. I'd do it opposite if you have the intake and exhaust on the six to contend with. Just do the easiest side to reach last.
Still a PIA, but not quite as bad as trying to get those studs in the holes. Especially if you trying to save your nice freshly painted firewall!
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Mark Price
markprice242ATadelphia.net
Morgantown, WV


---- Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> wrote: 
> On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, JOE FULTON wrote:
> 
> > I spent about three hours today trying to get the 258
> > to sit down into the motor mount plates on the
> > crossmember.  I'm working alone and at least some of
> > you may have experienced the same frustration.
> 
> Sounds like to got it untangled. I jhsut chanegd the motor
> mounts on my 258, and installed a 258 into our other hornet a
> fewmonths back.
> 
> It's annoying, even when it goes "easy".
> 
> I don't have a sure-fire straight-shot so much as a methodology.
> Getting them out isn't so bad; the driver side, the mount bracket
> on the block is almost vertical... I lift the motor fairly high,
> install passenger side first. The drop the drivers side mount
> onto the xmember, then add the bracket on top. I find something
> to drift the holes into alignment; gettthin the first bolt
> started sucks.
> 
> I got smart(er) on the most recent -- the stud on the replacement
> mounts was 1" or longer -- far too long! I hacksawed it down to
> 1/2" or so, plenty long enough for nut and lock washer with 3
> threads stickin out, it made it a LOT easier to slip the mount
> in on the pass. side!
> 
> I don't know why the studs are so long, there's really no need for
> it.
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