[Vwdiesel] A4 engine mounts concluded (hopefully)

[Shalyn Shourds]

I pulled the engine mount tonight and installed my better used one.  
It's late and really dark so I'll have to check it in the morning.  Too 
dark to see well and I think my neighbors would flay me if I started the 
car up this late.  Initial and hurried survey of the helicoil inserts 
doesn't show any real damage.  Could it be that at a certain torque 
value, the inserts began turning into the mount along with the bolt?  If 
so, I'm still more comfortable changing it out--I don't like parts 
moving around when they're not supposed to.  When putting those bolts in 
tonight, at the quarter-turn step, the torque wrench was showing ~120 
ft. lbs.  That's a lot of torque.  About all my 135# can put on a bolt 
with a torque wrench.

The good news is that if you loosen the tensioner and pull the lower 
small roller, you can get that mount out if you maneuver the engine 
enough.  I don't think it will have messed with the timing any.  I'll 
find out in the morning, I suppose.  The head and cam are fine at 
least.  I rolled it over by hand a few times.


-Shalyn