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So has anyone else noticed an inherant flaw in their VF drivers side mount?
My car has been making some weird noises lately coming from the drivers side. Soooo I decided to go in and investigate a bit. Sounded like some clunking/rattling sounds coming from around the transmission. Took the battery and battery tray out to see if there was any problems with the motor mount there. Looked fine from the top. Decided to take it out anyway to inspect further. Maybe something was hitting something underneath it. Nope. Took it out and immediately noticed a ton of aluminum shavings on the stud that holds the transmission to the mount. [thumbd] So I look in the top nut that screws onto the stud to hold everything together and all the threads about halfway up are completely destroyed. I mean nothing left of them. Where it stood only around 3 threads total were holding the entire weight of the tranny... Another [thumbd] And it was screwed up to exact torque specs using my clicker wrench to I know it was correct. Any further would have overtorqed it by VF's specs. So I am quite pissed to say the least. Put in the stocker so my transmission wouldn't fall on the ground going down the freeway at 70.
Sooooo just making you aware I guess...
Looking at the Steeda unit now. Looks like it uses a steel top nut instead of freaking aluminum... Gimme a break..
My car has been making some weird noises lately coming from the drivers side. Soooo I decided to go in and investigate a bit. Sounded like some clunking/rattling sounds coming from around the transmission. Took the battery and battery tray out to see if there was any problems with the motor mount there. Looked fine from the top. Decided to take it out anyway to inspect further. Maybe something was hitting something underneath it. Nope. Took it out and immediately noticed a ton of aluminum shavings on the stud that holds the transmission to the mount. [thumbd] So I look in the top nut that screws onto the stud to hold everything together and all the threads about halfway up are completely destroyed. I mean nothing left of them. Where it stood only around 3 threads total were holding the entire weight of the tranny... Another [thumbd] And it was screwed up to exact torque specs using my clicker wrench to I know it was correct. Any further would have overtorqed it by VF's specs. So I am quite pissed to say the least. Put in the stocker so my transmission wouldn't fall on the ground going down the freeway at 70.
Sooooo just making you aware I guess...
Looking at the Steeda unit now. Looks like it uses a steel top nut instead of freaking aluminum... Gimme a break..