Friends don't let friends drive with bad motor mounts...

jnrandall · #1 (**permalink**) 11-15-07, 06:50 PM

I had forgotten what a difference these baby's make to the feel of the car. Replace em if you need to. Cadillac would not replace them for me because it would require the removal of my headers. However my service writer gave me new ones (gratis) and I got them replaced on my own. Since my engine shop had to take the long tubes off anyway, they replaced the Kooks flimsy gaskets with higher quality steel ones.

No ticking, no leaks, just the roar of the Magnaflows!!!

CIWS · #2 (**permalink**) 11-15-07, 06:53 PM

Cool ! Thanks for posting the pic of them

Feffman · #3 (**permalink**) 11-15-07, 06:58 PM

HMMM, HMMM, HMMM (twiddling thumbs) ...Luke and UUC making up the urethane mounts.

Feff

1QUICKV · #4 (**permalink**) 11-15-07, 07:03 PM

which dealer?

jnrandall · #5 (**permalink**) 11-15-07, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by 1QUICKV

which dealer?

What's up! North Bay Cadillac in Roslyn, NY.

AAIIIC · #6 (**permalink**) 11-15-07, 10:39 PM

Stupid question, but what sort of symptoms does one look for to know if your engine mounts are bad? From what I can see (I've had the car up on a lift a few times) mine are fine. But when I shut the engine off, it shakes quite a bit, which I've seen others mention here as a sign that the mounts are bad.

JonCR96Z · #7 (**permalink**) 11-15-07, 11:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Feffman

HMMM, HMMM, HMMM (twiddling thumbs) ...Luke and UUC making up the urethane mounts.

Feff

Yep, they need to hurry it up.

slothV · #8 (**permalink**) 11-16-07, 12:30 AM

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Originally Posted by AAIIIC

Stupid question, but what sort of symptoms does one look for to know if your engine mounts are bad? From what I can see (I've had the car up on a lift a few times) mine are fine. But when I shut the engine off, it shakes quite a bit, which I've seen others mention here as a sign that the mounts are bad.

From my experience:

-Load rattling when turning off the car (a little is normal)
-Clutch chatter when accelerating from a stop
-In my case the extra movement also caused the Corsa to hit on the heat shield causes a very strange noise during hard accels.

The GM service manual has check engine mounts second on the list for clutch chatter. (First on the list is oil on surface of clutch or fw)

randycsvt · #9 (**permalink**) 11-16-07, 12:56 AM

I am getting an engine shake when I turn the car off that may be normal, but I would like to check the motor mounts. I just got the car and am not really familiar where everything is. Could somebody post a pic of the best places to look to see if the motor mounts are indeed leaking?

lunarx · #10 (**permalink**) 11-16-07, 03:48 AM

Was the top mount (in pic) bad too?
It's hard to tell from the pic.

Venomous-V · #11 (**permalink**) 11-16-07, 09:29 AM

Easiest ways to tell if they are bad is if you have shake and if you look under the car by the oil pan, if you see what looks to be like stained splattered oilish kinda looking stuff around there, Its a leaky motor mount.