- 1. [Spridgets] Detroit Iron (score: 1)
- Author: "Timothy H. Collins" <thcollin@mtu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:59:04 -0500
- My neighbor has a '66 Impala with a big (truck?) engine. His problem is that the engine torque is large enough and the motor mounts are weak enough to tear the motor free from the mounts. This screws
- /html/spridgets/2007-11/msg00159.html (7,476 bytes)
- 2. Re: [Spridgets] Detroit Iron (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Gilroy" <wmgilroy@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 09:07:42 -0800
- When I was a kid my father had a Chevy Wagon that had the same problem. It was fixed with a *factory* *recall*. What they did was run a length of chain from the block to the frame. If the mounts brok
- /html/spridgets/2007-11/msg00221.html (9,058 bytes)
- 3. Re: [Spridgets] Detroit Iron (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Duquette" <robertduquette@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:35:31 +0000
- That must have sounded great! I guess they could put a coke bottle in the door to distranct you from hearing the chain rattling? :) _______________________________________________ Edit your replies h
- /html/spridgets/2007-11/msg00223.html (7,738 bytes)
- 4. Re: [Spridgets] Detroit Iron (score: 1)
- Author: "David Lieb" <dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 11:44:49 -0600
- They made several diferent interchangeable motormounts for those things. Some were more performance-oriented than others. Maybe not concours for his car, but form FOLLOWS function. _________________
- /html/spridgets/2007-11/msg00224.html (7,728 bytes)
- 5. Re: [Spridgets] Detroit Iron (score: 1)
- Author: Billy Zoom <billyzoom@billyzoom.com>
- Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:28:55 -0800
- The Hudson engine would raise about two inches, and then pull the Hydromatic linkage into neutral leaving the engine to rev free. There was a guy in the club who would periodically have motor mounts
- /html/spridgets/2007-11/msg00228.html (7,812 bytes)
- 6. Re: [Spridgets] Detroit Iron (score: 1)
- Author: b-evans@earthlink.net
- Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:10:45 -0800
- Billy Zoom wrote: "needless to say I had to refrainfrom embarrassing Mustangs and Camaros at stoplights....which was probablythe most enjoyable thing about owning a Hornet." And in the immortal words
- /html/spridgets/2007-11/msg00229.html (7,349 bytes)
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