Ok, first, yeah, I know I need to clean these up a little and paint them. It rained right after I finished welding.. The first pic is of my newly fabbed front torque mount.
The next 2 are pics of the old passenger side mount. As you can see, the old mount bushing location was much higher up than after the revision. This resulted in more vibration being conducted into the chassis, as by being farther up, the mount was farther off from the drivetrain's axis of torsional vibration. I also replaced all of the existing bushings with softer ones, except for the front torque mount.
Here is the revised passenger side mount. See how much lower it is?
Anyway, the result is a dramatic reduction in vibration and wheelhop. It is totally different now when letting out the clutch or when shifting hard, especially from 1st to 2nd. Before, it would knock the shit out of my dash and the wheels would hop horribly violently. Now it's more like a factory car. If the wheels spin, they spin, but they don't really hop, and it doesn't feel like it's going to break anything. Everything feels a lot more controlled. Basically, the front torque mount doubles the amount of leverage the mounts have on controlling the driveline torsionally. (I can now brag freely that my mounts are better than the pri kit..lol)
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