Well i put in the new "perforamce" mounts and it shakes really bad now. So i left it go for a week and a half to break them in. Then tonight they entire car, every time we can to a dead stop, would shake so bad the entire dash and steerin wheel would look like a gaint viberator. The steerin sheel shakes worst then my freakin subs do and u can hear it knockin down on the firewall or somethings. What the hell would make an engine shake so bad? Swear i thought the dash was goin to fall apart on me and the steerin wheel fall off it was that bad.
1998 Sunfire, 2.2L auto
take the lower one out if you still want to have some performance without the rattle. i dont have them but i heard just with the upper one it isnt so bad. maybe sure you installed the mounts correctly start the engine and pop the hood n check it out make sure its not moving all over the place
i see you are from Dornsife, in Pa? if you are, then the current cold temps we have now dont help matters much. and it takes more than a week or 2 to break them in
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yea im from Dornsife, PA. Where are u at? But yea it will be alright for like a couple days when its cold as hell out but then today it got up to 50 and it started actin up. What could cause and engine tho to shake serverly like that on just stock mounts? ill change some stuff and see if it helps.
1998 Sunfire, 2.2L auto
well i just took my girl home and its cold out again and the engine/car doesn't shake hardly at all. WTF... Does this mean anything?
1998 Sunfire, 2.2L auto
now u ask why it shakes so bad on stock mounts? do u have inserts or no inserts..lol if there stock you have another problem..
who installed the mounts? either way id tape apart the top one make sure you have all the bolts and such THERE and tight. same with all of them
yes i have aftermarket mounts. but i remeber before i put them in the engine did shake a little bit more then my buddies cavi engine same year and all. So i was just wonderin what it could be if it was still on stock mounts. know what i mean? i installed them myself with help from a friend...
1998 Sunfire, 2.2L auto
an engine is going to shake a certain amount. The reason you're feeling is shake now is because the mounts are now solid, keeping the engine in place, causing the body to absorb the vibration from the engine. Its a setback to installing the mounts, everyone will tell you that.
yea but this thing is shakin so bad it cant be just from the mounts and why does it only shake once in a while and not all the time?
1998 Sunfire, 2.2L auto
i got some videos of how bad it's shakin if someone can host them for me???
1998 Sunfire, 2.2L auto
o and i notice i have oil spray under my hood also. heres pics
theres been a rather hot burnin smell from the engine lately when i pop the hood.
1998 Sunfire, 2.2L auto
http://media.putfile.com/shakin-engine
There is one vid. This one is me sittin in the driveway in gear then towards the end when the vibrarting stops its because i put the car in park. I tried to get how bad the wheel and dash vibrate but i couldn't really get it but u can hear how bad it is.
1998 Sunfire, 2.2L auto
http://media.putfile.com/shakin-engine-1
on this vid i put a soda on the dash to show how bad it shakes and the cap was bouncin off the window. i forgot to say turn ur speakers up and u can really hear the car almost vibrarting apart.
1998 Sunfire, 2.2L auto
http://media.putfile.com/shakin-engine-2
last vid this one is just of the engine bay. i showed the support and how that thing vibrates and the spark plug wires. i also noticed that whenn it does this it idles at like 500 - 600 is that low??
1998 Sunfire, 2.2L auto
ok well i showed my friend thats big into engines and he said it looks and sounds like my head gasket went. This sound right to u guys?
1998 Sunfire, 2.2L auto
I was expecting some badass shaking, that looks very minor to me, even with the drink/change on the dash...doesn't look that bad, might be in person though
I put the new mounts in my 2000, thats not bad at all. Turn your A/C on, if the change in the cup holder starts rattling and the CD Player (Aftermarket Eclipse Deck Might I add) starts to skip, then complain
... you might want to look into the oil problem though.
The aftermarket lower mount I had in my old sunfire scared the crap outta me! I went to a friend's house, put in the lower mount. Went to start the car up to go get pizza, and it felt like the motor was going to fall out!!! It was a 1995 Sunfire SE.
However, the aftermarket upper and lower mounts I have in my Sunfire now (1995 Sunfire GT, 2.3) (mounts from RSM) don't really vibrate at all. (well no more than normal with the exhaust I have and such lol).
Different mounts are going to have different effects on your car. Like I said, the first mounts I had could rattle your teeth out of your head... and felt like the motor was going to fall out (don't remember which mount it was)... but the ones I have now (upper insert, lower mount) I didn't notice when we put them in.
As for the oil leak... boy do I feel your pain. My car's been leaking oil since I got it almost 3 years ago. PART of my oil leak problem was the hose going from the crank case to the little black box on the intake manifold (oil separator?)... the hose had a hole in it. I replaced that... seemed to be better. Nope... STILL leaking oil... it's just not AS bad as it was before... and I'm THINKING it's the crankshaft seal... but not sure. When I get a beater, I'm pulling mine off the road, going to rebuild the 2.3 HO motor I have, put that in... get rid of the kit that's on there now... and get a kit that's not so darn low (it's annoying not being able to get over speed bumps without scraping)... and that's URETHANE!!! New tranny (even though it doesn't need it). That way I know it's going to be fine and not die on me when I start college in the fall.
Check your belt... is there oil on your belt at all? You COULD be leaking oil from somewhere and it could be hitting your belt and getting sprayed all over the place (like was happening with mine). if you're leaking oil from a place where it hits your belt, the belt will spray oil ALLLLL over the place.
