The one and only mod to the TL that I regret. I'm stuck selling them with the car (sold car). For future reference, how the heck are others replacing them with the OEM motor mounts? I accidentally pulled the vacuum hose from the bottom of all three mounts when I was taking the OEM ones out. What else can you do? You HAVE to pull those vacs free, don't you? I can't imagine the fix will be cheap going back to stock...

 

Huh? Dude I've put stock mounts back on numerous times

Unless you pulled the vac lines all the way up you can just stick them to the bottom of the oem mounts

Motormounts don't take more than an hour to do

 

huh? but what about the vac line that goes DIRECTLY into the bottom portion of the mounts? i pulled THAT out. as in the hose BROKE off the motor mount...
there's a way to stick them back in???

 

by IM mounts do you mean Innovative mounts?

 

yeah he's talking about Innovative Mounts

listen them hoses is for idle so you get less vib during idle... doesn't really matter... the only time I've installed stock mounts was on cars I installed the IM so I left the hoses there and zip tied them away from anything...

but when you really think of it... the IM didn't have em plugged in to the bottom, so what exactly does the hose do... doesn't matter much

 

if the hoses are disconnected its ok..... just dont block air passage from the sensor thats monitoring them and idle will b ok.

 

The oem mounts have no sensors. It does have one solenoid. When a person removes the oem mounts, the hoses should be blocked coming from the solenoid to prevent creating a vacuum leak.

 

to my knowledge they were supposed to left alone not blocked.....if they become blocked the solenoid registers the mounts as broken. at least thats what the service manual says.

 

ok, i need to have something cleared up and i know it doesn't pertain to this issue, but...

I've seen all these diff. threads on which stiffness to get, and some ppl are saying the 75A will donut and the you need to go stiffer? So what should i get???

 

Xiomaro -

If you can wait, hold off until we see what XLR8 is going to offer. XLR8 will be offering a new design mount made by a different company.

If you need the mounts sooner, get the 75A if you can endure the vibration at idle.

Regarding the 60A.... If your are 5AT, the 60A would last for a while before donut'ing. If you are 6MT, don't waste your time with the 60A.

 

Forgot to add....

The 75A might donut too after a while. My 75A appear to be good without any donut'ing. I have not removed them for inspection, but glancing at them while I am under the car and I see no obvious signs of donut'ing. BTW, I am 5AT.

Tripnbeats has the 85A and said that the 85A is only slightly stiffer than the 60A. So if you are daring, maybe try the 85A.

 

yea the 60 will donut on ur first lift of the clutch..... th 75 on the econd lift and so far so good nothings occured on my 85.... once the vibration in the cabin decreases ill make sure to check them and see if they r broken....but i still wanna see what xlr8 has in store.

 

^ such a shame that they didn't redesign them and the same thing happens to the 2nd gen set

 

still....im disappointed in a lot of things for this car. aftermarket n oem

 

LOL! i haven't check on this in a while so i just ordered them... 85A

O well, bring on the vibs! and who knows maybe i'll say screw bushings and go straigh billet! lol

 

Josh says any day now for his 3G mounts to arrive. We'll see how these compare to IM.

 

^Actually, they aren't engine mounts..

 

^ huh?

 

^x2 then what are they? He's telling us to hold off on the IM's.

 

There are 2 projects in the works: engine mounts and another mysterious part!!

 

So what's due tomorrow. Mount or mystery?

 

when i put my innovative mounts in i took out the solenoid and have never had a check engine light on...

as for the mounts get the 85a...i got the 60a and they are gone....

 

Mounts are leaving on a pallet this week. Mystery mod is in production.

 

Hmmm, I had no idea there was a 2nd project, you held out on me Josh! haha

 

i bet the mystery mod is a torque damper!

 

Man, josh needs to stop teasing us!

 

its a flux capacitor

 

I was thinking the same thing. Engine Torque Damper

 

i'm wondering if i should get a stiffer one to replace the oem one in my tpye s