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Old Feb 28, 2005 | 08:19 PM
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As the person who did that helicoil work on your motor let me clarify what was done to your motor by engine lab.

When your motor was brought to us whoever was previously working on it for you had screwed up the mount bolts in several ways. First off someone had already drilled out old bolts and did such a bad job at it that the new holes were crooked and they also used the wrong helicoils. Since the wrong helicoil was used whoever attempted to put your stuff together tried so hard to screw the new bolts into the wrong thread that they snapped off the mount bolts in all the holes.

At the time it was dropped off I was told that these multiple fuck ups were made by a shop 'that had done a lot of swaps before'. Judging by your above post it appears that you have let the same hacks mess up the same mount for the umpteenth time.

We did what we were supposed to do for you which was remove the broken bolts and put in a new set of CORRECT helicoils.

I personally informed the person who brought in the motor (you?) that the only way to make things perfect again was to weld in the holes and start from scratch, but it was a much more expensive option and may have required replacing the head gasket since the heat from welding might compromise it. I still remember the conversation like it was yesterday.

Your shop's track record has proven it's the source of the problems with this mount so please don't try to pass the buck for this fiasco to EL. I can tell you right now that you will be denied based on my opinion of your circumstances.

The only way bolts broke and that coil came out is because the mount bolts were overtorqued or overstressed AGAIN. We had nothing to do with the first time your motor mount was ripped out of the block so why do you now believe that we are the cause of happening again? IMHO you need to find a new swap shop that knows how to use a torque wrench and repair their screw ups.

There is also the chance that something is wrong with your swap setup if the mount being ripped out is not the result of the bolts being over torqued.

Last edited by 0HP930; Feb 28, 2005 at 08:32 PM.
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