rod.b7 Member 8 Member For: 16y 2m 1d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 05/03/09 08:23 AM Share Posted 05/03/09 08:23 AM Have just purchased '03 xr6t ute tray back, and discovered that it has a broken driver side engine mount and the engine is dipping down on this side. Could any one please give me advise on the job of replacing the mount? I have already purchased a good second hand mount(same as V8 mount with the strap), do I just jack that side of the motor up and undo all bolts in/ out? It's a bit tight with no hoist!Cheers for any help Rod, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Spin_ Donating Members 695 Member For: 16y 11m 3d Posted 05/03/09 09:02 AM Share Posted 05/03/09 09:02 AM (edited) edit, you`ve got the mount. Yeah just support the engine, pull the old one out put the new one in. It`s not as easy as that in practice, but that's basically it. If you reckon you can do it, you`ll prolly succeed. Edited 05/03/09 09:05 AM by _Spin_ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Full Monty Member 513 Member For: 17y 6m 16d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 17/03/09 04:06 AM Share Posted 17/03/09 04:06 AM Drivers side is a bit of a pain to get at, as there is a few heat sheilds to remove etc to gain access..make sure you put them back also, as the heat from the turbo will perish the rubber quick smart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazza New Member 7 Member For: 14y 5m 29d Gender: Male Posted 18/03/11 03:37 PM Share Posted 18/03/11 03:37 PM I just did my passenger side engine mount and it was a bitch of a job mainly because the top mount nut was done up extremely tight. I managed to get the top nut loosened by using every socket extension bar I own to allow me to use my breaker bar from above the intake manifold. Even then I thought I was going to break the socket. After that it was easy. Undo both engine mount bottom bracket bolts where they mount to the alloy cross member, jack the motor up as high as it will go by jacking under the sump with a block of wood to spread the load. The mount will drop out of the top bracket and will slide out easy. The turbo side one looks scary though... Some pics of my old mount and new side by side...The new one cost 30 bucks from riverside spares. Not too worried about the quality because the ford genuine is clearly crap! You will notice that the mount is nicely rounded out when the broken end of the bolt was rubbing around in its spot. I have been having all kinds of horrible noises from my front end over the last 6 months. When starting the engine I often got a loud "clunk". Going round corners I got a slightly different and softer clunk. Breaking and accelerating I got a "graunch" to quote my friendly local Ford service rep who wanted to charge me $200 to take out the left front strut to diagnose theses noises because after a day in their work shop that were baffled. So I went and ripped out the whole front end and put Superpro from Fulcrum through the front end. This I can recommend. Best money spent so far on my lady, but I digress. When it all went back in that damn graunch was still there! Ahhh.It was somewhere here in this great forum where I read of a guy who had dented his hood when his tuned T broke free of its mounts. So I tried the broken mount tests, foot hard on the brake, rev the motor in Drive, same in reverse. This showed that in Drive the motor would stand up in the engine bay. Bit strange to watch and really freaked out my bro when I showed him (he's an STI man, he doesn't know what its like to have anything break in a car, owning a Ford teaches you about these things....) Anyway the broken mount syndrome can manifest itself in so many strange ways. If you have any strange noises give your motor the "Mount Test" too. A couple of tips. I got the NA (naturally aspirated) mount, it sure does look like the the Turbo one without a strap. Any way I could not get the straps to go on so I had to first trim some excess rubber from around the corners of the alloy channels and then gently file away the hard edge at the bottom of the channel so the strap would sit down a little lower and catch the now deeper sides of the channels. I also had to use my vice to squash the mount a bit to physically fit the strap up as the new mount was a little taller than the old one. Have a close look at the pics and you can see the bright alloy corners where I have filed it back.Oh and for the record my car had done about 65,000 kms when it started making these noises, is not tuned and is an auto... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussie1926 Donating Members 176 Member For: 14y 10m 17d Gender: Male Location: Muswellbrook NSW Posted 20/03/11 12:52 PM Share Posted 20/03/11 12:52 PM I did mine the other day broke both of them after having a misshap with a gutter, they were about $130 each from ford. I just undid the mounts at the bottom and jacked the engine up then it was fairly easy to swap them out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbaxr6t Member 35 Member For: 16y 1m 13d Posted 21/03/11 09:53 AM Share Posted 21/03/11 09:53 AM I have some XR6 new mounts. are these the same as the T ones?? Can I use them in my T?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Apples Donating Members 110 Member For: 19y 5m 17d Gender: Male Posted 21/03/11 10:47 AM Share Posted 21/03/11 10:47 AM I did mine the other day broke both of them after having a misshap with a gutter, they were about $130 each from ford. I just undid the mounts at the bottom and jacked the engine up then it was fairly easy to swap them outWTF? I bought the driver side for over $300? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbaxr6t Member 35 Member For: 16y 1m 13d Posted 22/03/11 07:54 AM Share Posted 22/03/11 07:54 AM WTF? I bought the driver side for over $300?I only paid $55 each Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazza New Member 7 Member For: 14y 5m 29d Gender: Male Posted 22/03/11 12:15 PM Share Posted 22/03/11 12:15 PM I have some XR6 new mounts. are these the same as the T ones?? Can I use them in my T??The pics in my post above are of the broken genuine "Turbo" mount and a new non genuine NA (naturally aspirated, ie non turbo) mount. It is my understanding from several sources they are the same, just that a turbo mount comes with a strap, the NA does not. Therefore I ordered an NA mount as I already had the strap from my existing Turbo mount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussie1926 Donating Members 176 Member For: 14y 10m 17d Gender: Male Location: Muswellbrook NSW Posted 31/03/11 07:19 AM Share Posted 31/03/11 07:19 AM yer I got mine from ford and they had the strap on them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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