Howdy folks,
After blowing my 3rd CV Boot in a year, I have decided it was time to do something about it. I purchased Vinnie's cradle spacers to add height to the engine and tranny to give the axles their proper angle back. However decided also to get new solid motor and tranny mounts to boot. I figured I already will have it jacked up, so why not? The questions I have are gonna be noooooooooobish to some I am sure. But I need ask them anyways seeing I hvae not done this type of fix/repair/replace before.
I will say in advance that I have read Jay's How To on replacing the motor mount, but my question seems to be the size of the motor mount. in the pictures the mount doesnt look all that big. But when I purchased my solid motor mount from NAPA, its bloody huge!!! (at least seems to me that way) and then the solid tranny mount is smaller size. I just want to make sure I got the right ones, the part numbers are supposidly correct for my car, but it just seems off.
And then for Vinnie's spacers. I took some photos with the pieces in place to see how they would go in with the new mounts. I have never done these before so I am gonna ask some noobish questions again..... I get the two longer pieces and where they sit in accordance to the mount and engine/tranny. My question lies in the bottom half of the mount where the little seperate pieces go. I know or can at least guess which ones go where, but its more of a question which way are they facing on the mount when installed. I am going to use some RTV to hold them when I install them. (Seeing I am doing this job alone) I just want to make sure the correct positions of the lower spacers is correct.
Here are the photos of the solid tranny and motor mounts. And the last couple are with Vinnie's Spacers added.
Now with the spacers added.
Engine Mount
Tranny Mount