<VV> JACKING POINTS/Mount failure

[Dennis & Debbie Pleau]

I'm not bashing Lon or Steele or Hank.  I don't think the rebuilt mounts 
are up to hard driving.  I had my original 65 mount fail about 4 years 
ago.  I bought a replacement from Lon, it failed within a couple of 
months.  I then bought a 66 to 69 style from Lon, it made about 3 
months.  I can guarantee I never jacked them up by any part of the drive 
train when they were in my car. I then asked for an NOS mount on the VVs 
and bought a 66 to 69 from Bob Galli and it hasn't failed.  I didn't return 
any of the failed mounts because I feel my daily driving is really hard on 
them.  If I thought they were defective, I would have returned them for a 
credit or replacement.  They're out in the barn somewhere.  I live in an 
"equestrian" neighborhood with really washboard gravel roads, which 
probably beat the heck out of the mounts.  The good news is the county did 
redo the main roads a month or so ago, with some type of 
clay/asphalt/gravel mixture which hasn't washboarded yet.

Dennis

At 12:45 PM 8/30/2005, corvairs wrote:
>Let me tell you a particularly galling story - About 8 years ago we were 
>having this same debate at a National Corsa convention and one individual, 
>who will remain nameless, made the same claim oveand over again, but less 
>than a year earlier had sent back 2 Steele rear motor mounts to me because 
>of "defective failure".. He still claims he has never "had a failure" due 
>to jacking up his Corvair at the differential - you you see, it's a 
>hopeless discussion. Lon
>
>Harry Yarnell wrote:
>
>>I have always jacked at the belly of the differential. Never had a problem.
>>
>>
>>Harry Yarnell
>>Perryman Garage and Orphanage
>>hyarnell1 at earthlink.net
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "J R Read_HML" <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net>
>>To: <kaczmarek at charter.net>; <UltraMonzaWest at aol.com>; 
>><virtualvairs at corvair.org>
>>Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 12:41 PM
>>Subject: <VV> JACKING POINTS/Mount failure
>>
>>
>>>Hank,
>>>
>>>The motor mount failures that come to my mind can (many anyway) be 
>>>traced to jacking on the skid plate area.  Your method may be spreading 
>>>the load enough to avoid the problem.  I'm just not willing to test it 
>>>myself.  I doubt that the length of time so supported has a great deal 
>>>to do with the (potential) adverse results.  The rear of the car pretty 
>>>much weighs the same whether supported for 5 minutes, 5 days, 5 weeks - 
>>>well you get the point.
>>>
>>>Other failures, AFAIK, were simply the result of old age (of the rubber 
>>>components).
>>>
>>>Attachments (if any) are scanned with anti-virus software.
>>>
>>>Later, JR
>>>_______________________________________________
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>>
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