Re: installing rear transmisison mount

[thescirocco@juno.com]

On Sun, 25 Jun 2000 16:59:37 EDT WaspHwy@aol.com writes:
> I am replacing the front and rear motor/tranny mounts and have run 
> into a problem. when I jack up the rear of the bellhousing for the
trans, I 
> can slide the mount right it. but when I go to lower it, the top two 
> bolts stop the trans from lowering into the right position. does this
make 
> sense to anyone? 
> 
> how about this... when I jack up the trans, it goes up and towards 
> the rear of the car. so when you lower it it goes down and towards the 
> front... of course... but when it goes down, it hits the middle of the
top two 
> bolts, instead of lowering directly on top of them. 
> 
> can anyone help?
> 

I don't know how you are doing it...

Mount the rear mount with both brackets onto the transaxle, then jack up
on the differential, 
and align the bottom bracket onto the 2 studs.

Did you try the passenger mount yet?

Peter
'79 Scirocco 16V project car
'83 GTI 
'84 Scirocco, '80 Scirocco, '88 Scirocco 16V

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