Upper Gearbox Mount?

[Midnight]

Right ok, please bare with me.

I have searched but seems to be conflicting information.


Is it the same as the actual engine mount?

Obviously remove battery, jack under the gearbox.

Undo bolt/s and refit?


Do I need to do anything to the dogbone mount or can the upper gearbox mount be swapped without touching that?

Any help or a quick 'dummies' guide would be great.

 

[Budgie]

Yep, you sometimes will be lucky that you don't have to support the gearbox either.

Battery out.

Undo 18mm big nut in the middle.

Undo 2x 13mm nuts, make sure bolts don't drop through. Give stud a sharp tap with a hammer.

Lift old mount out.

Reverse to fit.

 

[Midnight]

So I don't need to touch the dogbone mount?

 

[Jack 172]

So I don't need to touch the dogbone mount?

Not for upper gearbox no, dogbone is underneath the engine and is only 2 bolts too, well worth upgrading that too

 

[Midnight]

Dogbone mount has already had powerflex bushes so that should be fine.

 

[Jack 172]

Then no you should be fine as stated just support gearbox

 

[Jamie86]

Worth looking at the lower gearbox mount as well.. pain in the ass to do mind!

 

[Midnight]

Managed to finally do it, what a cow if a job.

Firstly I dropped the OEM bolts, then when putting it back together dropped the new bolts.

Had to take the actual bracket off that the mount fixes too which took another 30 minutes.

Due to dropping the bolts it took over 2 hours, however the OEM ones must have been bad as the throttle response has sharpened up with little to no engine movement.