pressing in motor mounts

mpg9999 · 07-11-2004, 04:10 PM

I just bought some prothan motor mounts. Everyone keeps saying you have to go get them pressed in at a shop. Some have used there cars to do this.

Now, I havnt installed mine yet, but I had an old mount (the mount thats most forward on the car, on the crossmember). I havnt tried this on the other mounts, but what I did seems so much easier then what everyone else is doing.

Getting the old rubber out: I drilled some holes in the rubber to free up some space for it to flex then hit it with a hammer. The larger piece of rubber was deteriated and just fell right out. Took me about two minutes tops.

Installing the new mounts: First I took the metal pins out so the rubber had more room to flex. From doing that, I got the smaller piece of rubber in by hand. For the larger piece, I first sprayed some wd40 on it. Next, I put the new prothane mount and the old motor mount in a vice with a piece of wood on the new mount to protect it. Then I just tightened up the vice. It went right in. I had to readjust where it was in the vice a couple times to get it to go in real good. Once the new mount was coming out the other side and in contact with the vice, I took it out, put the wood on top of the mount, and gave it a few blows with a hammer. I just supported the mount on each end on the open vice so nothing was touching the bottom of the new mount so it could slide in unobstructed. It went right in. Total time on that was no more then 5 minutes.

Hope that helps.

-Mike

greg5286 · 07-11-2004, 04:13 PM

ya thats prettymuch how i put my es inserts in too, i know they're a little easier to get in than the prothanes but that method works pretty well.

Fosters · 07-11-2004, 05:04 PM

The dogbone is the easiest to do. The others are a little more difficult, but your method should work on them. The only one you might have a problem with w/ that method is the front (passenger side) as it has a metal "collar" that has to come out also, but a sawzall can fix that.

Josh

vladha · 07-11-2004, 05:43 PM

The dogbone mount is very easy to do. The one that was the biggest pain to get in was the firewall mount. The rubber just didn't want to go in. Took me like a total of 15 minutes, max, to squeeze in the other 3... the last one took me 2 hours. No vise and no press available.

Peace,
Mark

Its311Pete · 07-11-2004, 05:46 PM

A vice will def. work. I did all my ES Motor Mount inserts with a vice.
The pass. side mount is a little tough but if you use the right tools to cut the sleeve and the chisel or hammer it out, it is a piece of cake to install the ES insert.

gottabfast · 07-11-2004, 06:11 PM

I haven't had to get any of my bushings or mounts pressed in or out because of bench vises, wd40 and KY. They've been good to me. I'm not kidding aboutthe KY either

NismoSER · 07-11-2004, 06:23 PM

The dogbone is real easy. I did one once by jumping onto it, lol. The 3 other times though, I used the car method. I don' have a vice or a press either.

daveracer · 07-11-2004, 06:39 PM

i used my rear tire on my ford focus as a press to do them all. didn't take long and was effective.

TUNED200 · 07-11-2004, 06:42 PM

WD-40 or an oil will also help them slide in better.