Best place to buy new motor mounts?

Posted By: dustergirl340

Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/17/08 02:33 PM

What is a good source for new, good quality motor mounts?

Posted By: Dart 340

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/17/08 02:36 PM

Try rockauto.com
also I think you can get stockies from Oreilly's too.

Posted By: OzHemi

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/17/08 02:48 PM

Yep, local parts store, rockauto, etc

Posted By: JohnRR

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/17/08 02:58 PM

biscuit or spool ?

Posted By: OzHemi

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/17/08 03:03 PM

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biscuit or spool ?

Biscuits taste better..

Posted By: moparpollack

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/17/08 03:04 PM

My hi-jack spool!

Posted By: Jim_Lusk

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/17/08 03:08 PM

There isn't a good quality mount available from any parts store that I know of anymore. I've been round and round with the junk from India and Korea. The rubber is bad and the metal parts don't fit.

I'm going through an issue with a 94 LeBaron trans mount right now and I suspect in the end the kid who owns the car will end up buying the factory mount for $200.

Posted By: dustergirl340

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/17/08 03:11 PM

Biscuit style and heavy duty.

Posted By: Rug_Trucker

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/17/08 03:11 PM

GregZ, MagnumHP get the urethane tranny mount too

Posted By: JohnRR

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/17/08 03:52 PM

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Biscuit style and heavy duty.

Poly locks from Schumacher, as Jim Lusk said the stuff from the parts store is off shore and cheap garbage .

Posted By: 540challenger

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/17/08 03:56 PM

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Biscuit style and heavy duty.

Poly locks from Schumacher, as Jim Lusk said the stuff from the parts store is off shore and cheap garbage .

i have the poly locks in my challenger haven't broke them with 7000 miles of abuse from my 408.

Also i this the brand was pioneer i got reg. mounts for my 273 and i broke one of them after 6 months

Posted By: mopars4ever

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/17/08 04:26 PM

Valley Vintage Auto Parts has some NOS mounts. 2806779 phone 440-355-4085

Posted By: Fab64

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/17/08 05:45 PM

Autozone carries Duralast brand - are those cheap, imported junk, too?

Posted By: Neil

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/17/08 06:10 PM

Torch out the old rubber on the drivers side and weld it up solid.

Moroso sells solid mounts, but I would just stick with the drivers side.

Posted By: Dart 340

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/17/08 07:47 PM

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Biscuit style and heavy duty.

Poly locks from Schumacher, as Jim Lusk said the stuff from the parts store is off shore and cheap garbage .

i have the poly locks in my challenger haven't broke them with 7000 miles of abuse from my 408.

I have solids on mine and they fit great. Don't think I will be breaking those any time soon.
Also i this the brand was pioneer i got reg. mounts for my 273 and i broke one of them after 6 months

Posted By: dustergirl340

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/17/08 09:42 PM

thanks guys...looks like we're going with the Schumachers

Posted By: Jim_Lusk

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/17/08 10:37 PM

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Autozone carries Duralast brand - are those cheap, imported junk, too?

Yup.

Posted By: 67SATisfaction

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/18/08 01:21 AM

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There isn't a good quality mount available from any parts store that I know of anymore. I've been round and round with the junk from India and Korea. The rubber is bad and the metal parts don't fit.

I second this opinion - been trying to source OEM style BB mounts. I get the same #%$^& part number from India. The steel nub doesn't line up with the hole. There must be thousands but the sales rep swears they never had any returned. ^#&*%* Sent back twice to Mancini before I gave up, once to Summit for the same reason.

Posted By: Y3 70 BEE

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/18/08 02:21 AM

New or old car its INDONESIA mounts. Moroso solid cheap and reliable.

Posted By: jrwoodjoe

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/18/08 09:01 AM

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There isn't a good quality mount available from any parts store that I know of anymore. I've been round and round with the junk from India and Korea. The rubber is bad and the metal parts don't fit.

I'm going through an issue with a 94 LeBaron trans mount right now and I suspect in the end the kid who owns the car will end up buying the factory mount for $200.

I am going to need new motor mounts for the 340 to go in my Challenger when done. Jim, are you saying that you can't get a good motor mount that looks like factory any longer? How different do the Shumacher mounts look from stock?

Thanks, Joe

Posted By: JohnRR

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/18/08 01:30 PM

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There isn't a good quality mount available from any parts store that I know of anymore. I've been round and round with the junk from India and Korea. The rubber is bad and the metal parts don't fit.

I'm going through an issue with a 94 LeBaron trans mount right now and I suspect in the end the kid who owns the car will end up buying the factory mount for $200.

I am going to need new motor mounts for the 340 to go in my Challenger when done. Jim, are you saying that you can't get a good motor mount that looks like factory any longer? How different do the Shumacher mounts look from stock?

Thanks, Joe

The Shumacher poly has a gold irridated bracket that goes on the frame and the poly looks different than the rubber , just spray it black and be done with it.

Posted By: Scott Carl

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/18/08 03:23 PM

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There isn't a good quality mount available from any parts store that I know of anymore. I've been round and round with the junk from India and Korea. The rubber is bad and the metal parts don't fit.

I second this opinion - been trying to source OEM style BB mounts. I get the same #%$^& part number from India. The steel nub doesn't line up with the hole. There must be thousands but the sales rep swears they never had any returned. ^#&*%* Sent back twice to Mancini before I gave up, once to Summit for the same reason.

And we continue to out-source

When is America going to wake up a smell the coffee. You'd think there would be more complaints. Perhaps we aren't complaining LOUD enough

Scott steps down from his soap box

Posted By: Jim_Lusk

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/18/08 07:59 PM

Outsourcing doesn't bother me as much as it does some others. Much of the industry that I've been connected with most of my life (electronics) was outsourced a long time ago, but quality is there. I think they get away with it on parts like motor mounts because a lot of people don't change them when they wear out and they aren't "visible" to the average car owner. Complaining at the parts store seems to be futile.

Posted By: Fab64

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/18/08 08:07 PM

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New or old car its INDONESIA mounts. Moroso solid cheap and reliable.

Please elaborate.

Are you saying that Moroso mounts are made in Indonesia, and that they're good?

Posted By: Moonraker

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/18/08 08:14 PM

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There isn't a good quality mount available from any parts store that I know of anymore. I've been round and round with the junk from India and Korea. The rubber is bad and the metal parts don't fit.

I second this opinion - been trying to source OEM style BB mounts. I get the same #%$^& part number from India. The steel nub doesn't line up with the hole. There must be thousands but the sales rep swears they never had any returned. ^#&*%* Sent back twice to Mancini before I gave up, once to Summit for the same reason.

And we continue to out-source When is America going to wake up a smell the coffee. You'd think there would be more complaints. Perhaps we aren't complaining LOUD enough

Scott steps down from his soap box

Why complain? When its American made its usually expensive as hell and people complain about the price

. In most peoples mind its better to buy crappy parts for cheap then buy quality parts that are expensive. Also why pay an American $20 an hour to build the same thing you could get someone in a poor country to do for 20 cents a day. Yes its sad but unfortunately thats the world we live in.

Posted By: Dragula

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/18/08 10:32 PM

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thanks guys...looks like we're going with the Schumachers

Word of warning...His HD poly units are taller than stock. If your clearance to the hood is tight, 0.25 or less, they may not work. I was told they are the same thickness as stock, but they aren't. I guess he can't read a set of calipers. My air cleaner now rubs the hood. I was going to swap out the high dollar hd poly ones for solids and see its lower, just havent got around to calling him back.

Posted By: dustergirl340

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/18/08 11:50 PM

Thanks for the heads-up. Though we have plenty of clearance, it shouldn't be a problem.

Posted By: ryan053

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/19/08 12:52 AM

I just bought the cheap ones from the parts store and drilled 2 holes through the drivers side mount and bracket. then put two grade 8 bolts through it and its holding up fine for me.

Posted By: BDW

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/19/08 01:16 AM

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I just bought the cheap ones from the parts store and drilled 2 holes through the drivers side mount and bracket. then put two grade 8 bolts through it and its holding up fine for me.

Sounds interesting, got a pic?

Posted By: Posest

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/19/08 03:01 AM

I bought a set and they are identical thickness to the ones I replaced. I like the lock on the drivers side. Even if it deteriorates the lock will keep the engine from trying to flip over. I received a bad passenger side mount and called the about it. I had a new one two days later for free. No questions asked. Schumachers is the only place for me to get my motor mounts. In fact I used their kit to convert my 4 cyl Dakota to a small block. Bolted right up and have had no troubles with it at all. Very happy with the quality and pricing.

Posted By: snojet

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/19/08 01:30 PM

Dose anybody have the web site for Schumacher?

Posted By: mopars4ever

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/19/08 01:41 PM

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Posted By: 451Mopar

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/20/08 01:51 AM

Only stock style ones I have had good luck with were Borg/Warner & TRW and I'm not sure they make them anymore. Last ones I bought were in 1990.
I will probbly get the poly locks and a torque strap.

Posted By: AlexP

Re: Best place to buy new motor mounts? - 09/20/08 01:54 AM

I've broken the cheap PIONEER ones twice now.

I've got Morso Solid mounts, but I'm going to try the rubber/solid combination.

If only I found find a reasonably priced rubber mount that wouldn't break...

Truth be told, I will more than likely end up with Polylocs.