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JKS Budget Motor Mount Lift

JKS Budget Motor Mount Lift

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The JKS Budget Motor Mount lift is a very nice piece of simple engineering.  The plate is made of 1" aircraft aluminum, anodized a real nice red.  I am a little concerned with dissimilar metal corrosion, but I've looked at the one that I installed a while ago and I don't see any signs of it yet, so that is a good thing.  

Additional Parts:
Anti-seize
Tools Needed:
18mm combo wrench
18mm socket
15mm socket
11mm socket
Long extensions for the sockets
Pliers
Cutoff wheel/ hacksaw

 

Installation:

You will need to remove the fan shroud from the radiator if you have not already done a body lift.
1. Make certain engine is cool and remove the radiator bottle.  You need to remove the hose from the nipple right below the radiator cap, then push in on the bottle as you pull up.
Radiator bottle locking tab lift out bottle
2. Then remove the 4 bolts holding the fan shroud to the radiator with a mm socket. shroud screws shroud screws

 

Motor Mount Lift
Caution: Place block of wood between floor jack and bottom of oil pan.
1. Loosen both Motor Mount to Engine Bracket Bolts. This helps to allow the engine to rotate up.  Also loosen the Transmission to skid nuts, this will allow the engine to slide around. stock motor mount
2. Brace engine with floor jack and piece of wood under the oil pan.  Be careful that you do not get the wood on to the oil drain area.  
3. Remove Factory Mount on passenger side. stock motor mount
4. Now you will need to cut off a few of the threads on the bottom of the factory motor mount stud.  This is to allow for the extension to screw all the way on to the stud.  Since everything seems to be different, I just screwed the extension on, measured what remained of the factory stud that was showing.  
5. I then removed the extension and hacked off a little bit more that the measurement.  Then screwed the extension back on, make certain that it is tight.  You'll need to use a pliers for this, I just rapped a rag around the extension so I didn't gouge it up.  
6. Now reinstall the motor mount on to the factory bracket.  
7. Torque lower nut tight, being careful to keep the mount centered on the frame extension. You will not be able to tighten this nut later. I was able to get a stubby open ended wrench in there after the driver side was done and check the tightness.  You might be able to get a thin wall socket on it, but I didn't have one to try. difficult nut
8. Now to the driver side. You can do this two ways. I choose to remove the entire assembly, and then undo the mount to engine bolt, but you could take the nut off the bolt first. Either way if you have A/C the engine bracket is coming off.  Having no A/C compressor should allow you to just pull the bolt out forwards and skip taking the engine bracket off.
9. Remove lower nut from mount.  
10. Remove 3 bolts from engine bracket.  
11. Remove upper bolt from mount. At this point if you choose to remove the nut earlier you can rotate the mount and bracket to get the mount to bracket bolt out. Otherwise the entire assembly will slide down along the side of the engine and pull out through the bottom. driver side mount assembly
12. Remove the mount to engine bolt. I tried the reinstall the assembly with this bolt back in the correct direction, but I would have needed 3 people to do this, so I gave up. I didn't figure it was that important to put the bolt in from the forward direction, besides it is much easier to bolt the engine bracket to the engine, motor mount to the frame and then line up the mount to frame bolt.  I am going to keep an eye on it to see.
13. Reinstall the engine bracket. reinstall engine bracket
14. Repeat steps 4-6 on the driverside  
15. Install and snug the bolts on Motor Mount.  
16. Lift Engine and reinstall the Driver side Motor Mount to Engine bolt from the rear.  
17. Install Passenger side Motor mount to engine bracket bolt. I needed to tap the side of the mount to get it to line up perfectly.
18. Install nut and snug that bolt, lower the engine, but do not take all the weight off the jack.
19. Tighten all the motor mount bolts.  
20. Now back to passenger side. Put a big screwdriver between the engine bracket and motor mount. Pry gently, and tighten up the Mount to engine bolt when it is all the way out in oval.  This will give you the clearance between the engine bracket and the frame bracket.  
21. Tighten the Driver side mount to engine bolt.  
22. Tighten the transmission to skid nuts.  

 

  N-m Ft. Lbs. In. Lbs.
Support Cushion Bolts/Nuts  40 30 -
Support Cushion Thru-Bolt  48 35 -
ENGINE BLOCK BOLTS 50 37 -
TRANSMISSION MOUNT NUTS 28 21 -

This page last updated: 16-Apr-2008

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