Vibrating radiator after Motor Mount inserts
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Scooty Puff Sr.: The Doombringer
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Vibrating radiator after Motor Mount inserts
So I recently put in RR Racing front and rear motor mount inserts. LOVE them. Except that rattle coming from the radiator shaking within it's mounts. Any ideas on how to keep that bitch steady?
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lol nice. I need to get my jack / stands back from a buddy. It looks like it's pivoting on the bottom mount / mounts, but I don't know why it would shake like that. I'll figure it out once I can get under it...
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So, I think I figured out the mystery. Overtightening. The friend that did mine is a tech at a dealership, and I'm pretty sure he used and air impact on 'em. I had to fight like crazy to get the front one loose, but once I did, and retightened it w/ a ratchet by hand, and took it for a drive, at idle, it was WAY smoother. I couldn't get to the rear one, so I may get it back to him to loosen and 'hand' tighten that one as well on a lift.
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I did mine with hand tools and IIRC, I torqued them down to stock specs, so I dunno, maybe that was the case for you, but not me. Although I'm loving that warm weather is back, it makes them a little softer and makes the shaking much less severe.
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same here. I guess it takes 'em a while to break in. That radiator rattle's kind of annoying tho. I'll probably take a close look @ exactly what it's doing at some point and see what can be done about that.