[V8] TB Change/Motor Mount

[dsaad@icehouse.net]

You would probably have to do some 0 to 60 sprints in reverse to snap it - it is
designed to take the torque from the other direction but still I am suprised
that it has not broke yet. Mine had a 1/4 inch gap so just bolting it in would
have stressed it to the breaking point. As far as that goes, the broken one will
still function as a stop.

When I replaced my front mounts, I found they just fell apart. There was
literally nothing holding the motor in. It was a little shocking.
With the old mounts and broken stop, I would bang the exhaust on the cross
member under full torque. (idiot mode = MAX :-)


Dave

Quoting "Stafford, Kenneth A." <stafford at WPI.EDU>:

> This broken torque stop is very common--it was on mine as well.  Not wanting
> to get involved with all that it required to replace the sagging motor
> mounts, I simply replaced the torque stop.  Three years and 40K miles later,
> it's still intact, YMMV!  Of course, even broken (ie pulled apart) it still
> functions as a torque reaction limiter (in fact, I detected no evidence that
> it was broken until I saw that it was).
>
> Ken
> 91 V8Q
>
> > If the front "torque stop" is broken (happened to me too) then the
> > cause is bad motor mounts.
> > Mine disintegrated. The new ones have a heat shield on them.
> > Do NOT replace the torque stop until you replace the motor mounts or
> > it will just break again.
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