Motor mounts hold your 4x4's engine in place in the chassis. In fact, we're not really sure why they are called motor mounts because a motor is an electric motor, and a gas- or diesel-driven engine is ...
Engine mounts are among the components that nobody talks about until they break. Just like their name explains, engine mounts have the role of keeping the power plant in place inside the engine bay.
Motor mounts are about as unglamorous a piece of hardware as you can find on a vehicle, seldom listed as a maintenance item in owner’s manuals and never mentioned in new-car showrooms as a reason to ...
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.
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 ...
In today's car market, efficiency is the name of the game. In order to keep up with (or stay ahead of) the competition, General Motors is constantly finding ways to enhance its vehicles. One such way ...
If you’ve got an ’05-and-newer Tacoma, an ’07-and-newer FJ Cruiser, or an ’03-and-newer 4Runner, you need to crawl under your Toy and check your motor mounts. Despite their otherwise glowing ...
Oftentimes, it's easiest to address problems with the path of least resistance. But what about when that problem is a firewall that prohibits the use of an HEI distributor cap in your ...
Dear Tom and Ray: The Toyota dealer where I have my car serviced recommended that I replace the motor mounts. Since I had never heard of motor mounts breaking, except maybe in an accident, I declined.