Thread: TLSheff - Silver Sled

ill take those rails off your hands

Originally Posted by DanPrixGTP

ill take those rails off your hands

They not in my hands, THEY ON MAH KAR!!!!

take em off the KAR

http://s93.photobucket.com/albums/l7...516_173352.mp4
^^^ Is this too much movement. Hard to see in the video but the middle pin in the mount was moving/rolling as it arched.

For those of you who have been thru this, please I need to know if this looks right to you. Forgive the shake, was under the car best I could with it still on the ground and the GF throttling... good brakes lol good brakes.

I posted this because I am trying to narrow down a clunk I have had for a long time and it is getting profoundly worse. Tech at the shop said most likely it is either struts, mounts, or the intermediate shaft. But he would have to tear into it to really find out and that would cost... so I'm checking best I can before throwing $$$ at things that still work.

Now as to the clunk it only does it under load.
Shifting P - R - D it barely creaks, no real clunk.
Driving is normal, bumpy road is quiet as a mouse.
Bouncing the car, nothing.
Taking off from a red light/stop sign, clunks
the more throttle I give it as accelerating from low speed, clunks more
driving casual with performance shift on, shift 1-2 it clunks, cant hear 2-3 tho... but i think road noise is too great at that point.

any thoughts??? I'm leaning to the 13yr old 103k miles motor mounts being bad, but want opinions.

how do the mounts look?

Didn't get a chance to look at the tranny one, the uppers are 90* turned and old, but no tears or anything and there is no play in them.

The lower has some fluid or oil (could be left over from the last oil change, not sure) around it, this weekend I'll actually put it up on stands and take the wheels off and really look at it, prolly take some pics... It doesn't look like it is as high as i think it should be, looks somewhat deflated, but then again, I haven't seen what one looks like with a good mount in it. and with weight on it I would suspect it would squish down some but maybe not.

Doesn't look to me like some of the ones I've seen pulled out. Its not exploded or anything looks sealed, but again, there is oil (whether its mount fluid or not I don't know) around it.

yah I've gotta look into my front end clunk too

Easy way to check.

Get under it and look.

If they looked ripped, torn, shredded, guts been puked out...etc.

They need replaced.

And they're cheap.

Originally Posted by bluegtp91

If they looked ripped, torn, shredded, guts been puked out...etc.

I'll have to get a better look, cosmetically the lower engine one looks fine. No holes/tears/rips, but the car was still on the ground so it was hard to get a really good look.

My main concern is if the engine should rock as much as it did in the video ^^^^

To me that seems like alot of movement for very little throttle application, she was barely hitting the gas and it was torquing over a good inch or so.

our engines move a lot I've seen. hence the dog bones

^ That's why I thought I'd ask to see if other think its normal. I want to replace them with solids or poly's just to stop the majority of movement, I don't mind some shaking from the motor, but I don't want to throw money at them and it not be the problem and still have the clunk and no funds to fix it.

Plus the lower moves, but the uppers don't move that much... hrmmm... may just have to put it on a lift here at work and play during lunch.

Pwetty car is pwetty. I like the wheels and rails. Damn good job on restoring those headlights. Do some retro's now lol.

I will get to retros later, want to get the black capsules with new lens' and matching corners, take them apart and retro those. The factory ones did clean up well, but they are still not to my liking and if I'm gonna have good projectors I want perfect lens to match. I'm a little O.C.D. like that.

But first I need new tires and want a couple go fast parts, then I will get to the looks.

Right. I bought brand new lights to do my retro. Not that it worked out I used them but whatever. The ones on the car were only like...a year old.

So my Mother closed on her new house end of last week, so this weekend we moved her into it... along the way my SES light pops on. *Facepalm* WHY? You were doing so well... arg...

Well, car drove fine, never missed a beat so I figured something minor. Had a 3 day weekend, today was first day back to work, ran the scanner at the dealership...

P0102 Mass Air Flow (MAF) Circuit Low Input

Guess I get to play with the car and buy some cleaner spray today after work.

I had that on mine last week. Cleaned throttle body and it came back, so I got some maf cleaner and cleaned that and its been good ever since. Hopefully yours cooperates.

Ya I have about 30k since I last tore the motor apart so It's probably pretty gunked on the TB, and the MAF is the factory one as far as I know, so its about 106k... so I may be looking at a replacement.

Hopefully tho, it does co-operate. *crosses fingers*

Originally Posted by danielle15

I had that on mine last week. Cleaned throttle body and it came back, so I got some maf cleaner and cleaned that and its been good ever since. Hopefully yours cooperates.

BOSS

Did you remove the MAF from the TB when you cleaned it?

Originally Posted by Rico

BOSS

Did you remove the MAF from the TB when you cleaned it?

No, I couldn't because didn't have the right bit. So it probably did get some tb cleaner on it. But its acting fine now that I cleaned maf with right cleaner. No lights and car hasn't surged Rpms lately and seems to be running smooth. As far as i know, its got 123k miles on it.