JISMO transmission mounts

[LEMHEAD16]

Okay, so my transmission mount was totally shot and I coudn't stand the sloppy feeling shifts anymore. Unfortunalty I am totally broke right now, no money for a good transmission mount and I don't want to buy a stock one and replace it later.

Solution: Solid Transmission mount.

I unbolted the old mount, the rubber was already cracked in half so it was no problem to remove the metal bottom part from the top. Next I removed all the old rubber with a angle grinder and coarse pads. (Yeah for air tools). I welded in a piece of 1 inch square tube (Yeah for POS flux core welder) to replace the stock rubber and reinstalled it all.

Total cost $0

I have never felt a car vibrate so much. It is like you can hear the gears in the transmission grinding together and I can hear every noise the engine makes. I have nothing but a huge grin on my face. I can't wait until my wife gets in for the first time. She is gonna ****! It's cool for now but I will see how long it lasts on a daily driver.

If you have the tools, mainly a welder, this was one of the easiet things I have done to my car. It took about 1.5 hours including a long test drive.

[WDRacing]

Try solid motor mounts along with the transmission...talk about a ruff ride.

[steve s14]

with the engine mounts being stock and the trans solidly mounted, it may crack the trans cross member from the flexing loads.i wouldn't recommend leaving it like that for a long time.cool writeup though!

[LEMHEAD16]

with the engine mounts being stock and the trans solidly mounted, it may crack the trans cross member from the flexing loads.i wouldn't recommend leaving it like that for a long time.cool writeup though!

Interesting, I plan on making motor mounts from hockey pucks pretty soon. Those should be close to solid.

[Craving4Boost]

anyone have a video inside a car with solid mounts? i want to get an idea of how its like.

[naed240sx]

Okay, so my transmission mount was totally shot and I coudn't stand the sloppy feeling shifts anymore. Unfortunalty I am totally broke right now, no money for a good transmission mount and I don't want to buy a stock one and replace it later.

Solution: Solid Transmission mount.

I unbolted the old mount, the rubber was already cracked in half so it was no problem to remove the metal bottom part from the top. Next I removed all the old rubber with a angle grinder and coarse pads. (Yeah for air tools). I welded in a piece of 1 inch square tube (Yeah for POS flux core welder) to replace the stock rubber and reinstalled it all.

Total cost $0

I have never felt a car vibrate so much. It is like you can hear the gears in the transmission grinding together and I can hear every noise the engine makes. I have nothing but a huge grin on my face. I can't wait until my wife gets in for the first time. She is gonna ****! It's cool for now but I will see how long it lasts on a daily driver.

If you have the tools, mainly a welder, this was one of the easiet things I have done to my car. It took about 1.5 hours including a long test drive.

I can't support this fact myself, but intuition seems to support it. I have heard that a solid mount is very bad for transmission life, and causes unneeded strain on the gears. I suggest picking up some new oem mounts.