Quart Meg Miles wrote:steve lyle wrote:...It's a bit frasrating that that I had to use a die grinder to enlarge are the hole so that they mount would fit on my standard block - I mean, aren't all the block mont attachment points drilled in the same place? Why can't the mount holes be coreclty located?
The engine mounts are two engine-side bits of metal separated by rubber; hardly precision. At least one of my mounts awaiting installation has elongated holes on one side to allow for variations.
Well, not really. The portion of the mount that bolts to the block is a single piece of sheet metal, folded into a U, with flanges at the sides of the U for the bolt holes. No rubber involved. On mine, those holes are not elongated. And they didn't line up with the block. I had to hog out quite a bit of metal to be able to bolt it up.
Granted, the holes that bolt to the chassis are elongated, and that's the rubber isolated member. Even there I had to enlarge them a bit, and again, the rubber isn't involved in the spacing between those two holes.
In any event, today's activity was removing the CV drive shaft in preparation for replacing the outer boot, once it arrives from DBE. I found this video helpful after I took the joint apart for cleaning and it was time to reassemble it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_gXjvBArSo&t=337sJust curious - others that have the CV axles from DBE (or RDE, I believe they sell the same parts) - how have your boots held up? I've owned a lot of front wheel drive cars, and never had a boot tear. I've got less than 10k miles on these, and one's gone already. I asked Ken about how common this was, and he was like "it's common for cv joint boots to fail". Hmmm....