Re: Front motor mount

[Eric L Ellis <elf16v@juno.com>]

Try 8mm instead if indeed the are Allen® bolts. I have only seen ONE car
in the many I've worked on that had these bolts.

-Eric
Good, bad....I'm the guy with the gun!


On Sat, 18 Mar 2000 22:03:24 -0500 John Worden <scirocco@powerlink.net>
writes:
> At 11:55 AM 03/17/2000 -0600, Neal Tovsen wrote:
> >Am I missing something here, or does the Bentley not cover 
> replacing motor
> >mounts? Anyway, I'm trying to do the front mount, and I'm looking 
> for
> >tips/tricks. I can get the two bolts out of the core support easily 
> enough,
> >and the mount is "free", but I can't rotate it enough to pull it 
> off.
> >Jacking the motor up and down doesn't help. Do I have to pull the 
> starter?
> >This seems to be where the other side of the mount bolts to the 
> engine, but
> >I'm having trouble trying to find a tripple-square tool...
> >
> You don't need to reomove the core support, first of all.  Secondly, 
> most
> starter bolts I've seen were normal allen head bolts, not triple 
> square.
> But I'm not saying they were never used(I had a 70's rabbit that had 
> them
> once).  As for the allen head bolts, I believe they are 10 mm.
> 
> 
> John Worden
> Wayne, Maine
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