Sub-frame mounts replacement?, 1993 850

ccgaudette · Post by **ccgaudette** » 10 Jan 2007, 22:29

Hello all, I'm on the verge of doing all my 1993 850's engine mounts save the main hydraulic mounts (front and rear of the engine bay) because I can see (and feel) that they are worn-out.

With those five needing replacement, I was thinking it would be good to replace the sub-frame mounts too. How do you do the sub-frame mounts? The parts are easy enough to come-by, but the step-by-step seems nowhere to be found!

Any advice appreciated.

Also, I am guessing that after doing all this, the front-end is going to need re-alignment?

Post by **MadeInJapan** » 11 Jan 2007, 07:46

Is it not in the free downloadable 850 service manual in the sticky section? Although the S.M. is for a '95 the mounts haven't changed enough in 2 years to be that much different for your car- especially the subframe mounts.

ccgaudette · Post by **ccgaudette** » 11 Jan 2007, 10:13

MadeInJapan wrote:Is it not in the free downloadable 850 service manual in the sticky section?

I did look, but I'll look again.

If it is in there

ccgaudette · Post by **ccgaudette** » 11 Jan 2007, 14:47

ccgaudette wrote:
MadeInJapan wrote: Is it not in the free downloadable 850 service manual in the sticky section?

I did look, but I'll look again.

No, it's not in the 850 maintenance and troubleshooting guide. None of the mounts are properly discussed within that set of PDFs. I did a rather exhaustive content search and then eyeball scan too.

That manual is, of course, of great value for other things, but I would not call it a complete "Service Manual".

Taking the old mounts apart is not likely to be a problem. If I cannot find re-assembly steps and torque specifications, I don't want to even begin to take them apart.

By the way, I'm planning on taking pictures of the other mount procedures as a momento!

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Post by **billofdurham** » 11 Jan 2007, 15:30

Hope this is what you are after - sometimes terminology changes mid-Atlantic.

Bill.

Post by **MadeInJapan** » 11 Jan 2007, 17:26

Pinned!

ccgaudette · Post by **ccgaudette** » 11 Jan 2007, 20:50

billofdurham wrote:Hope this is what you are after - sometimes terminology changes mid-Atlantic.

Bill of Durham, you are a "gentleman and a scholar"!

Now doesn't that all look like fun? This will take some careful re-reading. The hardware store kludge press I got for the upper engine bushing may see some extra use on these too.

DICTIONARY: kludge (also kluge) informal, noun

avesnaver · Post by **avesnaver** » 08 Jan 2009, 09:13

Hello Bill, the instructions that you posted seem excellent, however, the last two pages seem to be missing. Would you be kind enough to post them as well. Thanks,

Post by **MadeInJapan** » 08 Jan 2009, 14:05

Looks like those ended up missing in the transition to the new server.

Post by **billofdurham** » 09 Jan 2009, 12:16

Looks like those ended up missing in the transition to the new server.

I have had this problem before as I made the images large for Imageshack so they could be read easily.

I now go, cap in hand, to the boss and ask him to reduce them.

I have sent the final pages to avesnaver and wish him luck doing the job.

Bill.