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Recently I've been having vibrations in the car, especially on decel. Its also been accompanied by a slight metallic sound. So I was really worried and stuff. Well, today I was letting it idle with the hood open and hitting the throttle pulley trying to generate the sound (which was easy to do). I look over at the turbo and guess what? I only have ONE bolt holding the motor mount bracket to the motor! If you look at this pic of my motor, you can see all 3 holding the bracket to the block--

But on mine, the only bolt remaining is the one closest to the front of the motor. The top one and rear one are missing and the bracket itself is slightly rotated. Does ANYONE know the size and thread of those two bolts? I am in desperate need of them right now. This **** is ridiculous.


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Couldn't you just take the remaining bolt out and just store the bracket? That's what I've done with mine...

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Bwana wrote:Couldn't you just take the remaining bolt out and just store the bracket? That's what I've done with mine...
Huh??? Elaborate...

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Chris, what if you prop the motor up with a jackstand at the transmission caseing up near the where it bolts to the block. The remove the remaining bolt and take it down to the hardware store and match it up?

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pretty sure they are 10x 1.5mm i had this same problem a few days ago, i was running the motor and noticed it rocking more then normal, turns out when i pulled the motor last i pulled off the mount bracket to get to the pan easier and forgot to put all the bolts back in.

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c-rad wrote:
Huh??? Elaborate...
Duh, my bad. Somehow when I glanced at the pic "motor mount" changed to "lift bracket"... not sure how... lol

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Hey Chris, what is your email? Id like to ask you some questions about the headgasket and turbocharger you opted to use. Thanks.

-David

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davidricardo86 wrote:Hey Chris, what is your email? Id like to ask you some questions about the headgasket and turbocharger you opted to use. Thanks.

-David
Its in my profile dood....


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