During the installation of TTI headers on our '06 5.7L Hemi Police Pursuit Charger ("Go With the Flow," July '17), we discovered that the motor (engine) mounts were torn beyond the point of reuse.
Once one or more of the mounts fail, the engine is allowed more freedom to move about, placing undue stress on the transmission case at its mounting point. The best case is the transmission mount also ...
All vehicles, from cars to trucks, have engine mounts. The primary function of this component is to keep the engine intact while you drive and protect it from vibrations and shocks. Additionally, it's ...
Engine mounts, also known as motor mounts, are designed to secure your vehicle’s engine and transmission to the subframe. They are also intended to absorb vibration and shock to ensure that the driver ...
If your car has over 100,000 miles on it and you’ve never touched the engine or transmission mounts, you should seriously consider changing them. These unique pieces of hardware live hard lives and ...
Replacing an engine mount can be relatively inexpensive or costly, depending on the make and model of the vehicle. On average, replacing an engine mount can cost anywhere from $446 to $498. Simple ...
Ever since Nads got his car back with the new Toda internals, he's been nothing but Persian smiles. That is, until his motor made an unnatural clunking noise not much different than a really wet fart.
While installing an engine and trans into a chassis or car where it didn't originally belong isn't rocket science by any means, there are certainly right and wrong ways to do things. You'll nearly ...
No matter how quiet and smooth a car appears to drive, it still relies on an internal combustion engine to produce tons of raw explosive power every minute. That engine sits in a compartment ...