After much searching, I couldnt find a single post on what people have done to replace this mount. What I did seemed to be a lot of work for what should be a simple replacement without posts expressing frustration and cursing.
Here is the old on the left and the new on the right:
The OEM mount has one solid rubber piece that is vulcanized to two metal plates. One plate fastens to the transmission and the other fastens to the subframe. There is a fail safe hook on the right side in the event that the vulcanized rubber mount lets go from one of the plates.
The new mount doesnt come with a full transmission metal plate. I figure I needed to re-use the old.
The task is to separate the old. Seeing how the rubber was still well vulcanized to both metal plates, I had to drill through the rubber mount to just separate it, not a quick task:
Once separated you need to remove the rest of the rubber from the plate, which is a real pita, I used a flat head screw driver and hammered between the plate and rubber:
There was still a few chunks of rubber holding on to the plate, so I threw it into a fire for 10 minutes, cleaned it up and painted it.
Here is an over view of whats going on. Plate in the back ground is what is removed from the old and bolted on to the new:
I then had to remove the fail safe hook from the new mount because the old mount still has it:
Then I could merge the two pieces and fasten it down with an M10x1.5 bolt:
This is what I assume is required for the driver side rear transmission mount. Any input or feedback would be greatly appreciated. It looks exactly as stock would less the bolt, so I cant imagine there being any issues. The engine isnt in the cradle, let lone the cradle isnt even on the car either, so a test fit isnt really possible.
Just want to know if I did more work than I needed to do and if the replacement is only a GM dealer type item...
