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dc2GS-R

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Sounds easy! It just never is! Now I'm gonna need an engine torque damper to calm down some of the vibration
 

dc2GS-R

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The mounts do a good job of increasing vibration(along with lots of other good things). The torque damper helps reduce it a little

I searched for a write up last time I did it like 3 yrs ago. I found a funny one. Let's see if it is still there

hold on a sec. it's funny
 

dc2GS-R

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This is funny. Here is someone's write up:

1) Open box of prothane engine mounts -- ooh, pretty!
2) Read instructions (press old insert out, press prothane insert in) - sounds simple enough.
3) Grasp motor mount firmly, and press on insert with thumbs. Hmm, that didn't budge at all.
4) Waste two hours in the garage trying to figure out how to rig up a vice to press the motor mount insert out.
5) Realize that using a vice is not going to work. Get pissed off, rip the center of the insert out.
6) Take hacksaw and begin to saw through the aluminum band of the insert.
7) Spend the next three hours sawing and prying until that %^$@&%&$@ insert finally comes out.
8) Realize that this is not the best way to do this, but also come to terms w/ the fact that you're too stubborn not to go ahead and finish the other 3 mounts.
9) Try to rip out the center of the insert on the other 3 mounts so that you can get a hacksaw in them - that doesn't work.
10) Stop to smoke cigarette and think, since the other 3 mounts won't rip out as easily as the first one. A brilliant idea comes to you as you're lighting the cigarette - set them on fire and melt all the rubber out.
11) Pile the 3 motor mounts on the floor of the garage and set them on fire.
12) Realize just how stupid that was when the noxious fumes from the rubber begins to fill the garage and make you sick.
13) Kick the motor mounts out into the driveway, splattering molten rubber all over the garage floor and your boot.
14) Put out fire, and - I'll be damned - it actually worked!
15) Spend an hour sawing through the second motor mount. At least this one went faster than the first one.
16) Spend another hour sawing through the third motor mount. Not going any faster, but at least they're coming out. Besides, only one more to do.
17) Spend an hour sawing through the final motor mount insert.
18) Stop, smoke cigarette, and be pround of self for actually having the patience (or stupidity) to finish the job.
19) Open prothane box and begin to put in the inserts.
20) Realize that the the front Prothane mount is not a replacement, but simply two additional pieces that are supposed to be pressed into the orginal mount (which is now burned to a crisp and sawed through with a hacksaw).
21) Get pissed off, throw hammer in frustration. Hammer lands on lower timing belt cover (which is sitting on the garage floor) and cracks it almost in half.
22) Get even more pissed off, and start cussing loudly (4 in the morning, in the garage). Continue cussing loud enough that your 4-month old son wakes up.
23) Spend next two hours trying to get son to go back to sleep. Finally get him to go to sleep.
24) Take shower
25) Go to work

Yet to do:
1) Order new front motor mount
2) Order new lower timing belt cover
3) Finish cussing

Thanks - I just needed to vent.
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dc2GS-R

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I have a vice and sawzall so it's not quite that bad.....but......yeah...... still sucks

Atleast I've convinced a friend to help me. I'll tear apart my brakes while he starts on that LOL
 

dc2GS-R

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Ominous G2 said:
That has to be the best write up ever.
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I told you it was funny and worth reading. I laughed my ass off the first time I read that. I still laugh reading it and it has been like 3 or 4 years since I read it the first time
 

dc2GS-R

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Seriously? I thought Charleston was a decent sized city. There has to be something open LOL

Isn't University of South Carolina in Charleston? Or is it Columbia?
 

MrGurley

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thats in columbia. there is alot in downtown charleston but its been raining and when it rains it floods hella bad since its so low below the sea level. low car + downtown = bad bad news... i live about 10 mins outside of charleston. i think im gonna get off my lazy ass here in a few and find something
 
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