FW: Engine mount rebuild...with hockey pucks!?!

[Livolsi, Stephane]

seems like it could work.  In the dark ages we (well, some of us anyway)
used to use hockey pucks for body lift kits in 4X4 trucks.  They would
probably take more abuse as engine mounts, but seems like it could work.  Go
for it!

Stephane

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> From: 	Dave Hord[SMTP:spokes at mail.the-wire.com]
> Sent: 	February 13, 2002 5:16 PM
> To: 	quattro at audifans.com
> Subject: 	Engine mount rebuild...with hockey pucks!?!
>
> Hopefully that subject will turn someheads!
>
> Alright, car is a 1989 90quattro.  Engine mounts need replacing...they're
> still
> okay for daily driving..but we rally in the first weekend of march (TSD-
> Drivex).  On bigger hits the engine likes to move up and down quite a bit.
>
> I friend of mine who rallies a golf suggested I take the engine mounts
> off...remove the hydraulic part and replace with hockey pucks (drilled out
> in
> the centre to accept the bolt).  I was originally going to just go with
> new
> stock ones, but...
>
> I own an audi.  Something else went wrong...and now I have a good car
> again,
> with weak mounts and no $$.
>
> The question is this:  Is it possible?  I haven't taken off the mount
> fully
> yet, but it seems to me, from what I've undone, that the cast aluminum and
> the
> hydraulic piece are all one unit. F/A suggests this is the case as well.
>
> Anyone know for sure?  Am I going to have to do a serious hack job for
> this...or will it be fairly easy to seperate the hydro-mount from teh cast
> aluminum housing??
>
> =Dave
>
>
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