Motor mounts question, maybe dumb
 

... is there any need to jack up a 240D to change motor mounts? Looks to me like I can jack up the engine and remove all involved bolts, but the Haynes manual says jack up the car, too. Any reason for that?

Jack up the car so you have room to work from below. If you can do it without lifting the car, go ahead and do it that way.

Sixto
87 300D

I pull them up on ramps just to give me enough room to fit under there. I'm not as thin as your blog candy....... :eek: [a reference to the Weiland dude, just to clarify]
:cool:

Be very very careful when installing the bolt from the bottom up into the engine mount arm. You DO NOT want to cross thread this. Have a prybar handy so you can pry against the frame rail to move the engine slight amounts. Of course you know to jack it up via a 2x4 on the oil pan. It will hold up just fine.....

If someone would have told me before I started, I wouldn't be in the middle of changing out a motor arm on Coda......

Poor Coda. Will she ever be put back together?

:o

LOL ... well, I tell my friends, my real motivation to stay trim isn't so much health or looks as it is the ability to fit conveniently under a Mercedes sedan.:cool: I'll take caution with the bolt. I'm looking forward to getting back under a REAL car after brake-line wrangling on my dad's 99 GMC Safari (still not done.:rolleyes:)

Coda should read Chase's blog ... she'll feel better.

If you have engine shocks make sure you disconnect them from the engine shock mount when you lift the engine or you'll destroy the engine shock.

I hear ya!
 

Funny:)
As a kid back in the sixties I was wiry...I could squeeze through a picket fence if I had to! Even til this day, I still have the mindset that I can still do this. But just last night, I tried to squeeze under the car to remove the bottom nut from the front exhaust pipe where it attaches to the manifold, and at some point, I wudn't goin' any further...I had to jack up the front end a little in order to get my carcass under there!

Lets just say that Ive gotten a little thicker in my old age...both in the head and the body!:D

Just thought I'd add a tip to this thread: If you do do this without jacking up the car, keep in mind as you go to jack up the engine that the frame still has the springs pushing it up ... so the frame will go up with the engine until the wheels start coming up and relieving the springs. Then the engine will go up by itself. I didn't have much trouble getting all the bolts out with the car on all fours on the ground. But I was puzzled when the frame followed the engine up. Duh.:o