Re: gearbox mount

[Simon Favre <simon@domain.elided>]

The rubber mount for the tranny tail goes in with the large hole in
the rubber part at the top. The way to remember this is to consider 
that the hole in the middle is bolted to the crossmember. The weight 
of the tranny pushes the outer part down. This is somewhat counter-
intuitive. So, if you look at the metal bushing in the middle, it
should indeed be at the 6 o'clock position. The early style rubber
mount was smack in the middle, and had stiffer rubber. Why the new
one was considered an improvement, I'll never know. Perhaps it's the
first genuine GM part in an Alfa. <g>

If you put it in with the large hole at the bottom (metal part on top),
the outer part will ride too low, and vibrate like mad against the 
crossmember.

Dick Giambra wrote:

>Now on replaceing this mount.......which way does the new unit 
>face?  That is with the hole up or down, since it is off center and the old 
>one was centered.  The cardisc shows it at the six o'clock position and that 
>seems right, but I thought I'd throw this one out to the digest. Brian said 
>watch how the old one was oriented but it was square in the middle.  Thanks 
>in advance for the help.

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