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Posted by D Sherman [72.47.9.228] on Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 16:29:08 :
I pulled the blown engine from the M37 and brought it back to town along with what I think is a good Plymouth car engine to swap into it. I will pull the pan and head from the dead one just to satisfy my curiosity, but there's more wrong with it than just a thrown rod since I drained a couple gallons of coolant out of the oil pan along with the oil. I'll need the manifold and water outlet from the dead one because the Plymouth motor has different ones that won't fit an M37.
Anyway, can someone tell me how the rear motor mounts are supposed to be? What I took off were two different sized bolts, with various large and small washers, and some unidentifiable fragment of rubber and a piece of pipe on one of them. I looked in VPW's catalog, but they show "mounts", which just look like a washer, and "isolators" which look like some rubber thing, but they list an "upper rear" and "lower rear", and I don't have anything like that on my M37. There's just the usual two mounts at the rear of the engine and the one at the front. This is a real beater truck, so I'm tempted to just bolt it down without any rubber thing and call it good, but I worry that the vibration might eventually crack the casting or the bolts. Can I just put a piece of thick rubber in there? I have some 1/2" neoprene that might work. Are the correct mounts still available? How many pieces are there supposed to be to it? I wish I had a known good one to look at but I don't.
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