96 850 Turbo - Upper and lower torque mounts R&R

bugs11 · Post by **bugs11** » 16 Apr 2016, 21:30

R&R'd the upper and lower torque mounts today with Volvo OEM. MacGyver'd a upper torque bushing press out of materials around the homestead. Worked great, pressing the original one out was a lot harder than pressing the new one in. Can definitely tell difference in transmission shifting smoothness with the new mount installed. The original bushing was about 2/3 torn through, my guess is it would have broke in a week or two, even though I was driving like a proverbial old lady (pained me to get passed by a new Audi the other morning).

Note the difference in OEM and new Volvo OEM (Made in Poland) firewall upper torque mount.

My interpretation of a torque mount bushing press, installing the new bushing. If anyone wants it I'll mail it to them; you'll have to supply the threaded rod. Longest part of the project was designing and building the busing press. The tall piece of plywood was so I has something to hold onto, it really wasn't needed. Note the small black line on the bushing indicating "arrow pointing up is here".

Post by **erikv11** » 16 Apr 2016, 22:11

14 stars on the homemade press, I like it.

Post by **theWIFES_S70** » 16 Apr 2016, 22:17

I agree. Great looking press that we can all fabricate out of pieces of wood we all have lying around.

I actually just ordered these mounts on Friday. Bugs, is it hard at all to get at the nuts holding the firewall mount?

RigsPGT · Post by **RigsPGT** » 17 Apr 2016, 00:02

You'll need to remove the plastic cowl that wraps the windshield to get to the nuts which means you need to also remove the wiper arms. Not bad, just a couple of extra steps.

Post by **theWIFES_S70** » 17 Apr 2016, 03:25

Thanks for the directions, Rigs. I had been looking on here for directions on how to do this but didn't/couldn't find any. I thought I had to remove the cowl. (But knowing me, I was probably just going to try to force my way in) there!)

I won't do that now.

beigg · Post by **beigg** » 17 Apr 2016, 08:25

theWIFES_S70 wrote:Thanks for the directions, Rigs. I had been looking on here for directions on how to do this but didn't/couldn't find any. I thought I had to remove the cowl. (But knowing me, I was probably just going to try to force my way in) there!) I won't do that now.

It not needed 100%.

I left the wipers in place. Removed all the cowl screws and weather stripping, used a closed end crows foot wrench to isolate the nuts from turning.

bugs11 · Post by **bugs11** » 18 Apr 2016, 08:09

As stated you need to remove the cowl, which means you have to remove the wiper arms. The nuts holding my wiper arms were barely tight. There's a wiring harness in some clips that runs above the firewall mount bolts. I popped the harness out of the clips to get access to the mount bolts. The mount bolts were really, really snug. Not sure if it matters, but I put blue Loctite on the threads when installing the new mount.

Replacing the upper and lower torque mounts definitely made everything smoother, shifting and reduced vibration at speed.