From: Ken Postma [postmak@uswest.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 10:27 PM To: 928 Subject: [928] Re: What a "!"great week - Motor mount replacement I'm planning on Saturday joining the first run of the mile hi shark club into the mountains! It started out on Monday with a package from 928 Specialists. Thanks Dave. 1. Brake pad vibration dampers to help my squealing brakes. Sixteen of them, Yikes. 2. Steering rack bushings to fix my wiggling steering rack. Loose after my recent DE. I guess the stress of higher than normal G turns wore them out. 3. Super blue brake fluid, 6 months since the last flush and I was planning on another DE this year. 4. Tension tool, 2000 miles from the T-belt replacement. Thursday a package from DEVEK. A week before I decided if I saw a good deal come along on Motor Mounts I would buy some. So what does DEVEK do but offer some for sale. So I quick order those. Thanks Cindy and Susan. 1. Motor mounts - I've been feeling a vibration (not a "good vibration") and heat through the console shifter hole. 2. Ignitor cover - When Rich and Dan came through following the 928OC-IC and Mark and Jason were there. Mine was the only shark without one, I had to fix that. So I take Tuesday off "vacation", put in the steering rack bushings. This shifted the rack to the left and the steering wheel to the right. I play with the ride height too, Alignment coming up soon. I also put in the Brake vibration dampers, this almost totally eliminated the squeal. I also flush the brakes with the ATE super blue. I use the brake bleeder tool, ala Dr Bob. This works great by the way!!! Wednesday I check the belt tension, It had dropped from 5.2 to 4.0 in the 2000 miles. I adjust it back up to 5.1 to 5.2. Ship the tool back to DR on Friday. Thursday I put on the Ignitor cover - take that Rich, Dan, Mark and Jason. Saturday, I'm ready to tackle the motor mounts, I get a authorized leave of absence from my wife to go in the garage for awhile ;o) I've done my research, Ed's post (old)says it's a 6 hour job. Looks more like a 4 hour job to me. So up goes the car, me on the creeper. These were the steps I took, maybe right, maybe not. But It worked ;-) 1. Front end high on jack stands. 2. Drop the steering rack cover plate. 2a. Don't know if you need to. I loosened the stabilizer bar and pivoted it out of the way. 3. Remove the 10mm bolt holding the starter wiring. 4. Loosen and lower the steering rack, drivers side won't drop much due to hoses. 5. Support the engine with a bottle jack, large pieces of wood on the oil pan. 6. Loosen the lower motor mount nuts. 7. Loosen the cross member side bolts. 8. Uh Oh, the cross member is between the lower control arms and the frame. 9. Up the time estimate from 4 hours to the 6 hour figure. 10. Remove the 2 big bolts at the rear of the control arms. 11. Remove the 2 big bolts at the front of the control arms. 12. There's a tow eye looking thing in the way, remove the rear bolt, loosen the front bolt, pivot out of the way. 13. Wiggle the lower control arms loose and forward of the cross member. 14. Cross member won't come down enough, Now What?? 15. I wondered at step 4? Remove the PS lines from the rack, Don't forget a drain pan. I didn't. 16. Remove lower bolts on the steering U joint. I marked the rack end with a magic marker for alignment. 17. Now the rack comes down enough. 18. Remove the 4 bolts that hold the motor mounts to the block, each side. 18a. Raise the engine a little to gain more clearance. 19. Wiggle the mounts out of the car. 20. Time estimate goes above 6 hours. 21. Put the new mounts in the brackets. The old mounts were squashed 3/4 of an inch!! 22. Reverse the above to assemble. Notes: Watch the exhaust shields and the mounts when pushing the cross member back up. Refill the PS reservoir. Time was closer to 10 hours. Authorized leave more than over!@!@! My oil pan is now even with the cross member, not hanging below it!!!! Top it off with a new alignment this Tuesday, Whew. Ken Postma '86.5 928S Auto (refreshed motor mounts and other new stuff.)