Motor mount Advice 69 427

[Ned T.]

Ive been told not to use stock style mounts due to the satefy issues with them. True? Ive also been told there was a cable added from the dealers for safety. True? So what motor mounts are best to use? Ive been told there are mounts with a safety feature. True? I probably wont get the car judged but would like to keep as close to possible to original.

Thanks, Ned

[John H.]

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Ive also been told there was a cable added from the dealers for safety. True?

Ned -

Nope, the Corvette wasn't included in the famous motormount failure recall, although other car lines were (Camaro recall kit shown below).

[Ned T.]

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John, Thanks for the info....I looked in the paragon catalog and all they have is "imported" mounts. Anyone have correct mounts made in this country??

[Dennis S.]

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I put Federated #2249 mounts in mine. They look the same as the originals...non-safety type. Don't know who "Federated" is, if they are domestic or foreign, or who sells them, but I got mine from Dave Walters. Put the originals in the boxes and stored them away, so I would have to dig them out. You will need the heat shield to protect the driver side mount, if you don't have it. Paragon sells a reproduction. My original one is a little screwed up, but I haven't replaced it.

[Michael G.]

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Federated distributes numerous parts including the motor mounts Dennis spoke of. Manufacturer is Anchor Industries and in this case is an imported motor mount. I'm looking for a USA manufactured mount as well. Anyone know of a USA made mount.....anyone

[Jim T.]

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Everytime I see the trucks loaded down with crushed cars going to the steel plant in town I think about all the parts that are going to be melted into new steel. Some of these cars could have usuable motor mounts for our Corvettes to avoid the imported new ones. Mayby there are still some in local yards that have not been crushed yet or attached to motors sitting in the yards used engines selection.

[Jamie F.]

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Jim,
Sad that wrecking yards have become scrap metal depots and not used parts depots.
And now they have figured out how to cheaply destroy old engines so no parts can be used>
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124934376942503053.html

[Greg L.]

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You might want to check and see what they consider "imported".

There are tons of parts made in the US and Canada and Mexico for that matter that are of equal quality. Because of the history of the US and Canadian auto industry I consider them one and the same but technicaly a Canadian made part would be an "import".

A little off topic but a funny thing is my 03 GMC Z-71 and my buddies 04 Chevrolet 1/2 ton. I live in Alberta, Canada and my truck was built in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He lives in California and his truck was built in Oshawa, Ontario. So we both have "imports".

If you need a USA manufactured mount for economic reasons then I can understand that.

[Terry M.]

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I should have known we would get to this point:

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/SaveonaCar/5-downsides-to-cash-for-clunkers.aspx

Not that this has much to do with non-locking big block engine mounts.

[Pat M.]

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Everytime I see the trucks loaded down with crushed cars going to the steel plant in town I think about all the parts that are going to be melted into new steel.

Agreed. Intentionally destroying usable old parts, some of which could be interchangable with Vettes and other classics, offends me. Makes me want to horde as many "clunkers" as I can just to frustrate this effort.

[Jamie F.]

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Terry,
All great points, and shows how some things are just not thought all the way through.
Just like Global warming,,, but don't get me started on that one!

[Ned T.]

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Ok, since none are made in this country, which is a good imported motor mount? Do they make one that locks for safety reasons?

[Jack H.]

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There's a reason why Corvette continued to use non-locking motor mounts until late in the '70 model year, Ned... That's because the Corvette body was fiberglass and engines were built with spark plug shielding. The slightly different outline geometry of the locking style motor mount presented an interference threat to the plug wire shielding on SB engines.

That evaporated in late '70 when distributors were equipped with under-cap shields and Corvette was able to drop the front two banks of spark plug shielding and simplify the construction of the distrbutor shielding.

Now, with a BB and its use of shielded plug wires, you probably won't have a fit issue. Plus, many have been sucessful in 'squeezing' in locking style motor mounts even on SB engines repleat with their radio and heat shield components.

[Terry M.]

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Jack,
I would submit the locking motor mounts have nothing to do with the change in spark plug shield from two to four shields. My 1970 SB has locking motor mounts and a full compliment (all four of them) of spark plug shields -- as do all other early 1970 SB. In this case early is up to someplace around 12,000, out of a model year of 17000. So most of the 1970 SB production had the full compliment of spark plug shields and lockin motor mounts.

The interference with the locking motor mounts is to the "boomerangs" which ALL 1970 small blocs got. Chevrolet simply changed the configuration of those boomerangs to accommodate the size of the locking mounts beginning with the 1970 model year.

[Joe L.]

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Ive been told not to use stock style mounts due to the satefy issues with them. True? Ive also been told there was a cable added from the dealers for safety. True? So what motor mounts are best to use? Ive been told there are mounts with a safety feature. True? I probably wont get the car judged but would like to keep as close to possible to original.

Thanks, Ned

Ned-----


I don't know of any source for US or Canadian-manufactured motor mounts. I've checked this out pretty thoroughly and, while it's possible there is such a source, I have not been able to find it.

For something like a motor mount, I would not even consider using a used piece unless there was absolutely no alternative. I would use a foreign-manufactured part before I'd go used. These are a life-limited component. Chances are, a used piece has most of its life "used up".