Replacing your Volvo’s lower motor mount?
The actual “lower front motor mount” on the V70 is hydraulic. The actual lower front motor mount replacement procedure is quite different from the “lower passenger side motor mount” and much more complicated. Access to the lower front hydraulic mount is highly obstructed by the starter bendix and other frufrafra.
MVS Forum Member Zuffie88 asks:
My mechanic tells me that I need to replace my lower front (passenger side) motor mount, and that I can do it my self (I do most of my P.M.). My car is a ’98 V-70.
Can anyone list the steps to accomplish this?
Thanks,
Zuffie
MVS Forum Member dosbricks adds:
I just did this job on our `98 S70 a few weeks ago. Not hard at all.
1. Raise the front and remove the rt. ft. wheel. Use a jack stand since at one point you will be getting under the car. Remove the small screw that holds the top of the triangular vinyl flap in the wheel well, fold it up, and secure it with a clamp or small vise-grip. You will now have easy access to the mount.
2. Cut a 2X4 to the proper length to just overlap the edges of the sides of the oil pan. Place the 2X4 flat across the oil pan just behind the oil filter and use a hydraulic jack to apply slight lift to the engine using the board to protect the oil pan.
3. Break loose the 14mm bolts that attach the mount to the engine.
4. Remove the 17mm bolts that attach to the frame. Use a six-point socket with a breaker bar. The rt. bolt may have a clearance problem. If so, remove the 14mm bolts and raise the engine just a little more so you can get the socket onto the rt. bolt.
5. Install the new mount with the 14mm and 17mm bolts but don’t tighten them down yet.
6. Let the engine down and remove the jack.
7. Tighten all the bolts. This time use a 17mm box-end wrench to tighten the rt. bolt.
8. Reattach the flap, put the wheel back on, car on the ground, and you’re good to go.The lower rear mount is also hydraulic on the V70. All of the mounts are actually engine and transmission or engine/trans-axle mounts since the engine, transmission, and differential are a single integrated block on these cars.
How to replace lower motor mount
Last Updated on August 19, 2020
2 Comments
I’ve been trying to figure out what part of the engine mount is hydraulic. Do you mean pnumatic?
every shop and everybody told me I needed a new transmission it would bang from 3rd gear to 2nd and from 2nd to 1st also had vibration on highway going 30 or morebut once I would release gas it would stop had slipping on takeoff and all it was the torque mount the lower torque mount all problems resolved can’t imagine how many people replace their transmission and although it is is this torque mount going to the dealer tomorrow to tell them to shove it I can’t imagine how many people they get to spend all their money $65.00 fix