[urq] transmission and differential mount interchangability

Mon Sep 5 17:06:59 EDT 2005

Hi Mike,

I did it the way you describe: I bought 4 front transmission mounts at my FLAPS, they were around 15$ each, and they are correctly sized for the rear subframe-to-diff mounts. The OEM rear mounts were around 75$ here in Canada... My only concern was the "rigidity" of the rubber; the rear OEM must be stronger, because the torsional load is a lot more than up front where there is also 2 big engine mounts to serve that purpose. However, no problem so far, knowing that my engine is still stock. For a high-po engine, I would install the correct mounts.

Louis-Alain

> 
> De: Mike Fitton <rfitton at vt.edu>
> Date: 2005/09/05 lun. AM 02:47:12 GMT-04:00
> À: urq at audifans.com
> Objet: [urq] transmission and differential mount interchangability
> 
> So my rear subframe and diff are sitting in the floor.  I figure I 
> better replace as many wearing items as I can.  I was looking at the big 
> rubber things on the left and right of the diff where is attaches to the 
> subframe (not the big one in the rear middle), which I think are called 
> the differential mounts, and then I was poking around 034EFI and the 
> transmission mounts on that site look very similar to what's sitting in 
> my floor.  So I looked it up on the ETKA (sorry it's not back up yet, 
> btw) and they're different part numbers.  But I know there are a lot of 
> similarities between the front and rear subframes, so...what do you 
> think?  Will parts officially classified as transmission mounts replace 
> my rear diff mounts?
> 
> -Cheers!
> Mike
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