On how to change the motor mounts on a 1982 HE?

Thankyouverymuch

 

You need 9/16ths ratchet spanner to make the task bearable! Then place a jack under the engine, towards the front, just in front of the subframe with a wooded spreader plate between it and the engine. Then unclip the airbox covers and remove them and the filters, to get some access from the top.
You will find that leaning over the wing you can locate and just see the upper mount bracket, and that you can just, repeat just, get the spanner on the top (engine side) and the bottom (subframe side) nuts to undo them. With luck, having been loosened, you can unto them with a finger. Do one side completely before doing the other. The access to the nuts is shrouded by the brackets but it is quite possible. Once the nuts are off the mount, jack up the engine with a bias to the side you have undone, until you can get the mount out.
You can also use, and it is easier, a cross engine beam to raise the engine on its front lifting eyes.
The mounts are pretty indestructible though, are you sure they are shot?

 

My first response was,

ONE at a time, and very carefully, HA.

Greg is 100% on the work. NOT hard, but very time consuming.

If its still got the steer cooler on the LH side, more pain.

After the task, the engine will need to be "centralised" again. If its running the stock engine fan, then rocking the thing in "D and "R" with the top nuts loose until the fan is dead centre in the shroud.

In "D" the LH side will rise as you raise the revs, and in "R" the RH side will rise. Its a simple task once you get the hang of how the engine rocks.

I dont run an engine fan, so I simply measured from the cross brace to the top of the inlet manifold, and within a couple of mm, close enough.

Start to finish first time, about 12 beers.

 

Thanks Gents.

 

Yeah, the left is shot, no point in just doing the one.