RE: passenger side motor mount

["Neal Tovsen" <ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu>]

On 16v's there's no option. The mount is underneath the timing tensioner
pulley, so you have to take the belt off. That means the lower, which means
accessory pulleys, which means the other belts...you get the idea. Kinda
sucks, but I survived.

Regarding the earlier disgust at a $300 bill, I just paid more than that for
the mounts on my other car (also a 16v), but it did take him at least 6
hrs., even with all his tools and torches, because every single bolt on that
thing was completely rusted/frozen. This is why I gave up doing it myself to
begin with (I did try...). Normally, he said it would have been a LOT less.
It was originally supposed to be done in something like two or three hours,
which would have $150-$200 including the $50 mount.

Neal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Majordomo [mailto:majord@neubayern.net]On Behalf Of Chris Coracini
> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 12:28 PM
> To: 'Victor Farren'; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: RE: passenger side motor mount
>
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>
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> > You have to take off the upper and lower timing belt covers and to do
> > this you have to take off the water pump and crank shaft pulleys.
> >
> i don't know if the 16V's and 8V's are the same, but i didn't have to
> take any of that off.  just the upper timing belt cover...
>
> chris
> 86 16V scirocco
>
>
> >  After you do that, it is all there in front of you to play with.
> > Re-read the emails from the list, but you may also want to check out
> > http://www-pal.usc.edu/~jan/cars.html under the heading SUSPENSION.
> >
> > Don't pay a mechanic to do this if you have the time and the tools.
> > Figure it will take an entire afternoon.  You may want to take it to a
> > mechanic or machine shop to get them to press the mount in the bracket
> > (make sure it goes in the bracket in the same orientation as the
> > original), or save yourself a lot of trouble and get the mount already
> > pressed into the bracket from Virtual World or Adirondack.
> >
> > Victor
> >
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