what i did also was cut that crumpled crap from the top of the radiator support and bent it down adding it to a square tube steel and making a stronger rad mount. I now have legal lights, and they work, turn signals, headlights all of it. Many moons ago i upgraded my car to composite headlights and took my old glass bucket lights out, so here we go, light bucket from a 92 geo metro i introduce lights cement bar and some simpson strong ties from home depot So now the car needs some not gaff tape lights. So off to garys old engine out of his right hand drive skate for some more parts, i have engines hanging on stands so i can just get to them at any time In the engine flop the air cleaner box got mashed against the fire wall and ripped the nut off the threaded post So some how i had lost a bolt for the brake calliper, and since its a special bolt i had no spares, off to my local tractor supply for a replacement metric bolt and lock washer. Then a tube of 3m window weld fixed it right up, and since my glue gun broke the last time i did window weld i cut the tube open and used a small plastic tool to dig it out and gob the bejeezus out of itĪll done wiped up clean and smoothed out mostly. Now this was another thing that broke when the engine took a flop, i tried to mount up one from some spare parts but it was just so stretched out i used the old one and cut all the crap rubber out and hit it with a pressure washer to clean the oil out real good. Now that the front back motion was solved the side to side needed solving, so more cement bar to do the trick Now the exhaust was flopping around and vibrating that caused my welds to crack in a few spots, so i fixed all the cracks and made some new mounts to beef up the pipe from vibrating so much with some trusty cement bar. got it cleaned and put some fresh grease into it and reassembled it. I cleaned all the sand out of the boot, i thought it had ripped but actually it just popped off the socket. now the engine sits a little better in the bay and is not quite as tweaked out as it was. I had to weld some little clippings on the seat of what i welded because the washer was not sitting flat. I cut the old rotten rubber mount arm off and welded it to a brand new rubber mount. So i guess lets fix that stupid problem with a stupid fix So i been fighting with this engine mount the mounting points for the engine are pretty out of wack and as you can see the bolts and holes just do not sit right.
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