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Originally Posted by dmjlambert
I had new rubber mounts that I put on. The last time I did it, I had a heck of a time and worked on it for what seemed like hours. I couldn't get it to line up, but I'm sure it does line up. My wife asks me now and then what I got done with the truck, and I tell her a loosened a bolt or tightened a bolt, it took me all day. Anyway, the engine mounts, it was tough, but I finally got it lined up and it went in like butter. It took me 2 days to get one bolt in, it was the driver's side. On the second day, I still had the engine hoist on and lifted the engine just a fraction of an inch and moved it around and re-settled it a few times, and I used a crowbar and was able to shift the engine around just a little tiny bit, and the bolt went in. It's a good idea with the mount out and in your hand make sure the bolt goes in and screws with your fingers for the first few threads. You can also compare old and new mounts to verify holes are in the same places. Bottom line is for me it required patience and dinking around with it, and crawling under the truck, getting back up to shift the engine with the hoist, and getting back under the truck, repeat 173.5 times, it's good exercise.
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David, I agree with you that on occasion, those bolts can be stubborn.. I, long ago, lost count of the number of motor mounts and transmission mounts I've replaced.. The ones that were the most difficult (some were impossible) were on cars/trucks that had been in a collision.. It doesn't take much of a frame kink to totally misalign a small bolt hole. In this case, forcing a fit will put a strain on the mount and it will soon fail again. On one particular motor mount job, I could not get the mount holes to line up, nor would the ears drop down over the bracket.. I removed the transmission mount bolts and wrapped a chain around the crossmember and extension housing.. I finally got the bolts to pass through ,, I hand tightened the nuts and when I looked at the transmission mount, the pad on the extension housing was over 2 inches to one side of where the mount attaches to the crossmember.. When I discussed this with the customer, I learned the owner had rear-ended a car about a year prior..... A few frame measurements and that uncovered a "diamonded" frame.
David, If you read the posts in that thread I linked, you'll see where vardenafil's engine sits very low, and is grossly misaligned so much that the fan doesn't line up with the fan shroud..