<br /><br />So I have to remove the engine to get this thing out? I can't lift the engine with a hoist and remove it? Seems like a lot of trouble for a motor mount. <br /><br />Also, when I replace this mount does the bellhousing simply line up to the block and align the engine? It looks like the top of the engine rotated to the starboard side. I would think this mount would lift the front of the engine but not twist it. I could be wrong. this would be first Volvo engine and my first anything without motor mounts. Still can't believe the engine just flies. <br /><br />Are there urethane mounts available? I'm reading your tag line thinking urethane would be the "fix it right" solution. <br /><br />Thanks again for your help.
Like I said, they don't make urethane mounts, and how would you attach the urethane to the stud<br />(NOTE: rubber is Soft so it doesn't transfer noise and vibration to the rest of the boat) but even if you do put something together that will work you will be much better off. Without the mount in there, the ujoints, the bearings in the bellhousing and those in the drive are going to be in a very severe strain and won't last very long. Don't assume it's been like that for a while, it may have just broke which is why it was free.<br />If a new boat was free, it would be expensive to keep up.<br />An old used up boat given away is a LOT more expensive to make right and TRY to keep up.<br /><br />A free boat wouldn't be free if everything worked and it was in great shape.
The engine mount being bad wouldn't affect that at all. You would still have the same weight on the transom, bad or good mount. I hate to say this, but it sounds like the transom is rotten allowing the bolts to pull through. Transom repair is the only fix, since with that kind of mount system, the tranom is the only thing that holds the engine up.
