Rusty's not very quiet cuda progress

RUSTY Cuda said:
cars not very high hard to get any leverage under there
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It's easy to get leverage when it's raised up a bit, but it's hard to find a place to pry the dumb thing. It's all round so it wants to just slip. And then there's the chasing it back and forth - loads of fun.

Last night I was able to push/pull the thing back and forth with my hands, no crowbar needed. My motor mounts are loose though; not sure how much difference that makes.
 
Doesn’t the insulator have to be peened over in the bracket?

Not sure 74, it moved in & out pretty easy on both old & new mounts?


So after many hours of wailing & gnashing of teeth (Hey Jass!) It's pretty close to where I started, only gain was I got the car up in the front, maybe 1/4 too much, see if it settles again & get it on level ground before I mess with that again.

Did manage to loosen up most of the bolts on the engine mounts, with everything in there it was NOT easy.
The tail moved pretty easy, now I wonder if I even had to loosen them. Anyway at least it's close to straight now! 20240511_131836.jpg20240511_151956.jpgSo after the mount I went back to twisting that angled pipe that goes into the X pipe20240511_141355.jpg
20240511_141411.jpgWith that twist it looked like it would bring it up nice, but they would not line up with the headers! 20240511_143459.jpgquite an angle between the two.
So I got them lined up & ended up back to where I started with the mark! 20240511_152906.jpgDropped it back on the ground have 4" to the header flange & 3 3/4" to the clamp on the low pipe?20240511_152033.jpgStill looks fairly straight? 20240511_153047.jpg
So that leaves the motor mounts, I got a decent pic of the passenger side, does seem to have some wear? 20240511_124035.jpg
drivers side all I could get, can't see much. 20240511_124120.jpg
Could they let the engine tilt like that? Here's the old bushing, it is off center, how much it helped is not even noticeable!
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74DartSport said:
Doesn’t the insulator have to be peened over in the bracket?
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Pretty sure that is for biscuit mounts. If you give up too easily you can end up bending the crossmember to get the mount out, then you have to peen the part you bent back where it came from.

That's like 1/4" steel, it sure seemed like it would be harder to bend than working the mount out without bending it. I was right.
 
Gonna call TTI again this week & see if they have any ideas?

when I jack up the exhaust system to where it all looks perfect you can see it lifting the headers up to a more level position.

I hope it's not the mounts, that's gonna be a truly nasty job with everything in there now.
 
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