Re: Motor mounts

[skerocdriver@juno.com (Shawn C Meze)]

On Thu, 11 Dec 1997 10:56:32 -0700 rabeys@cadvision.com (Sean Rabey)
writes:

>        I'm going to be ordering new motor mounts for my 16V soon, and i
was
>wondering, if i'm going to replace them, should i do them all.  

It makes perfect sense to do them all at once to me. Lets say you replace
one mount and the others are bad too. Now that one good mount had to work
harder to help compensate for the other mounts lack of ability, which
will wear the new mount prematurely. Replace them all, it will give your
car a "new car" feeling. 

>I get a lot
>of vibration throughout the car, especially at idle, will new mounts
help
>this alot.

Yup.

>  Also my downpipe rattles on the front swaybar, is this due to a
>bad pax side mount.  


I don't know what a pax mount is. Must be a 16v thingie... if the
downpipe is making contact with the swaybar, then you got either soft
front and rear mounts, OR you need to realign the front tranny. (Front
and rear mounts..) 


>I am going with a hard rubber front mount.  Will this
>transfer any more wibration than a stock rubber mount?  


This will help eliminate some of the fore/aft movement of the motor. It
should help out with eliminating wibration more than a stock wubber
mount. IMHO, naturally. 


              Shawn Meze
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