- Location
- Bakersfield, CA
It was recommended by those who have done some prerunning to beef up the motor mounts. The motor mounts have been known to break off the bolts into the block with a real hard hit.......imagine the weight of the motor against the mounts if the suspension bottoms out hard on a big hit or jump. I've also seen motor mount bolts and the bosses in the block break on trail rigs, mostly on ill equiped rigs that had to use some speed to get through obstacles and slammed and or bounced the suspension hard. When one or two of the bosses in the block break off, that can mean needing a new block.....not a good thing.
When I had my motor out putting in the stroker, I went ahead and beefed up the motor mount brackets to avoid any problems. There are two holes close to the mounts on both sides of the block. It's not hard to weld some big angle iron to the motor mount brackets and tie into those extra two holes. This increases the number of bolts going into the block from 3 to 5 per side, and because of the position it greatly decreases the leverage of the mounts to the block.
Here's pics of what mine look like.
Drivers side:
Passenger side:
When I had my motor out putting in the stroker, I went ahead and beefed up the motor mount brackets to avoid any problems. There are two holes close to the mounts on both sides of the block. It's not hard to weld some big angle iron to the motor mount brackets and tie into those extra two holes. This increases the number of bolts going into the block from 3 to 5 per side, and because of the position it greatly decreases the leverage of the mounts to the block.
Here's pics of what mine look like.
Drivers side:
Passenger side:
