How to Replace Motor Mounts on the Eagle Vision 1993 Through

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Choose a level

   Set the parking gear and the brake.
   
   Block the wheels.
   
   Raise the front of the Vision with a jack(s) and support the car with jack stands.
   
   Remove the splash guards under each fender to reveal access to the mounts. , Raise the jack only until it just begins raising the engine a very little, to mainly support the engine, but not to raise the vehicle at all., (If your mounts have a heat shield between the mount and engine, remove the nut or bolt from the bracket holding the heatshield, using your ratchet and socket.
   
   Remove the heatshield.) Keeping the nuts loosely screwed on to just a few bolt threads, on the bolts, keeps the mounts aligned until both are loosened
   -- retained to this same degree, held on loosely, on each side of the engine.,,,,,, Install the heatshield and its retaining bolts, if your vehicle is so equipped (on the
   3.5-liter engine, for example). ,, Snug the nuts and bolts on all both mounts, at first only "finger tight".
   
   Then snug them all a little., The large nuts and bolts might be torqued to about 45 to 50 foot (13.7 to
   15.2 m) pounds.
   
   The smaller bolts on the transmission mount are torqued less, perhaps to about 20 to 30 foot (6.1 to
   9.1 m) pounds., Raise the front of the vehicle enough to remove your jack stands or blocks and such, and lower the Vision to the ground.
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   Step 2: concrete surface (strong 3/4 inch plywood can make softer surfaces or the ground workable).

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   Step 3: Place a full width piece of 2 by 6

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   Step 4: or 2x8 inch wood between a jack and the engine oil pan -- but not extending under the subframe.

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   Step 5: Loosen

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   Step 6: but do not remove the upper nuts that connect the mount to the upper mounting-bracket using a ratchet and socket.

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   Step 7: Loosen the lower nuts: But

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   Step 8: do not remove them from the bolt attaching them to subframe

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   Step 9: through holes in the subframe

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    Step 10: using your ratchet

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    Step 11: an extension and a socket

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    Step 12: for both mounts.

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    Step 13: The transmission mount: Prepare to remove the third mount much in the same manner as the engine mounts (of a different design) at the rear of the transmission This mount may need to be replaced for backward and forward stability.

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    Step 14: Remove the mount nuts and replace only one mount at a time: Raising the engine far enough with the jack to get either one of the mounts off

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    Step 15: then replace it as follows.

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    Step 16: Slide the studs on the bottom of the new mount into the holes in the subframe -- and lower the jack a little to seat the engine mounting bracket down lightly onto the stud(s) on the top of the mount

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    Step 17: maintaining alignment

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    Step 18: so not binding

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    Step 19: by tightening nuts and bolts little by little.

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    Step 20: Install the lower nuts and "finger tighten" at the subframe

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    Step 21: loosely as before

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    Step 22: just by a few threads

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    Step 23: to retain the engine positioning.

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    Step 24: Install the upper nuts and "finger tighten"

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    Step 25: at the engine bracket

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    Step 26: as well.

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    Step 27: Install the transmission mount by much the same techniques as the engine mounts.

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    Step 28: lower the engine a little.

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    Step 29: Finally

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    Step 30: torque all the mount attaching nuts and bolts to the manufacturers recommended number of foot-pounds with a torque wrench and a socket.

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    Step 31: Remove the jack from under the oil pan.

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