Has Anyone Broken A Engine Mount On Stock Power?

[Full Monty]

ok, all done, replaced it tonight in the driveway, really simple job, just requires a jack and a couple of stands, once you have the chassis rail on a jack stand, undo the bolt running through the metal bracket (securing it to the crossmember), then use your jack and a peice of wood to carefully and slowly jack the engine upwards (place the wood and jack to the rear section of the sump).

Undo the top bolt (easiest through the intake manifold near the T.B, and straight down with a few socket extensions, otherwise a little fiddly from underneath.

then slide the old mount out, mine had broken the top bolt clean out of the cast metal section in the top of it!

remove it from the lower bracket, install the new mount onto the bracket, slide back in place taking note of its original orientation (bent lip facing the engine block).

push it up into the engine mount block and put the nut on a couple of threads by hand, lower it down and push the bolt through the bracket and crossmember, tighten both bolts / nuts up and your done.

all up 40 minutes from jack up to down again.

Right side mount looks like a bee hatch, gonna get my mechanic to do that...!

[Full Monty]

ohh and the current available mounts are indeed different from my original BA ones (april 04).

the mount looks the same, but the shoestring straps are secured differently, instead of crossing over they have a small bracket on each side to hold the strings in place.

the actual rubber and metal ends looked the same to me.

[anthb86]

I got the same thing but ford say it will continue to happen with the extra power. My bf2 has 297rwkw and I aint keen to keep replacing them (especially when they quoted me $1,100!!) Can you get better ones to cope with the extra power/torque? Maybe xr8, gt, f6?

Cheers,

[CHLAXN]

1100 bucks to replace that's heaps mate. bloody labour costs lol. I paid about 280 each and not that hard to do it yourself if you no what you are doing.. the turbos mounts are the same for the xr6 turbo and F6 as they have the extra strapping over the mount for the extra torque but not sure about the V8 but would say they are the same.. the standard 6 cylinder does not have the strapping and are heaps cheaper..

[kovac]

I have a bf and cracked my drivers side engine mount its stock only put a phoon intercooler on

[Jarod85]

I happen to have pulled my motor out to do a swap over to a bf motor, and sure enough the drivers side mount is ruined. Ford quoted $250 each. It seems everywhere else can get cheaper parts then me.