Installing polyurethane motor mounts.

[Blackcrow64]

You can't buy just one. Your gonna have to buy a complete set again it sounds like. Theres no way it should have came without the front one in the first place.

[Andrew7dg]

Ok if you don't mind me adding 2 cents on how to put these in.
I just helped someone drop a motor with these on them and now I don't know if I want them on my car because they are horrible to install!!!

HOWEVER I found some tricks that I hope you will all find usefull and hopefully approve

So when we did this we were dropping in a whole new motor into a 1g FWD TSi and we had all of the poly mounts inplace. At the time we didn't have the transmission on the engine. For all of you who are installing a motor with these mounts it is really a lot easier to install the motor and the transmission in one piece (IMO). I say that because of these mounts it made it harder for us to put the transmission on. The poly mounts don't give at all.

We had the engine supported by a engine hoist (which if you have one it would be better to use instead of the jack IMO

We started with the mount in the front of the engine however we then realized that the hole in the back was way off.

So if you were to do install one first install the rear mount because that is the hardest to see and to get at. If that is the first one to install, it is going to be the easiest. all of the others you can see and get at easily.

Next we installed the front one. Now on this one the holes didn't line up and we had to push the motor back. For the longest time it seemed impossible to do this however i looked at my engine picker and there is a bar with it. I used this bar inbetween the two mount like a lever and pushed the motor back to line up the holes to put the bolt in.
Just to clarify- when i say inbetween the mount, there is a mount on the engine and the round mount on the frame. there is a space inbetween those two to put the end of the bar. it was really easy

so that one was done

next was the side mount which looked like the engine had to be pushed over from the passenger side to the drivers side. Again seemed impossible to do because the holes weren't lining up.
Looking around in the garage for things to use, I found the spare sissor jack in the car (all of you should have one, if you don't, get one! it may save your life...somehow..maybe)
Now here is where I might get the dissaproval from people. I put the sissor jack inbetween the engine and the round mount for the transmission. I expanded the jack, pushed the engine over and used the engine hoist to move the engine up and down. Bolt went right in with no problems!

Installing the transmission was difficult then because it kept hitting the frame brace right by the transmission. I had to put the sissor jack (because it is small it makes it very manuverable!) inbetween the engine and the firewall. I also used blocks of wood so nothing would get damaged. It was just enough to move the engine over to put the transmission on.

Next was the mount above the transmission. this one looked like the transmission had to move from the firewall to the front of the car to line up properly. What we did was a little backwards we installed the poly mount put the metal bracket on the mount and then attempted to line up the two holes that were on the transmission and the bracket.

This one I might get booed and hissed at because it even made ME uneasy to do this. Again I used the trusty sissor jack and put that between the transmission and the firewall to move the transmison over. I was uneasy to do it because I was afraid that one of the transmission bolts would give (DO AT YOUR OWN RISK). You don't have to move the transmission over completely. We put a screw driver in one hole pushed the mount over to get the other hole lined up. Put bolt in, take screw driver out replace with bolt. It lined up beautifuly and we tighended them down.

And they were installed!!!!

Like I said this was just my experience and I hope it helps someone out

Out of curiosity besides making the engine shake the car more, do they do anything else? I was looking where the mounts are, would they get rid of front end flex by stiffing the mounts up?

I haven't done it to my car yet and the car that I did this to isn't running yet so I don't know how they would act.

[matt50317]

Is there a websight that i can go to, to get the front polyurethane motor mount only, since my front mount is still stock? Does any one know where the best place to hook a air/fuel gauge to and possably which wire colored wire on the car.