Didn't take long, don't honestly know how long this car sat up before I got it - but after a short time driving both front mounts (maybe rears too) need replacing...

I've looked around but didn't find an exact answer to the question of Welsh, and the case by case defect folks have reported with their upper mounts... I'd just call but I don't expect a right answer if I were to call them and say,,, hey, are your upper mounts still defective, lol?

So, does anyone know if Welsh ever corrected the issue with the bits in the mount allowing it to drift off center and its related issues? And, if not, does the "after market reproduction" mount from SNG hold up?

Thanks in advance.

 

Welsh has always denied making any changes to or having any issues with their front upper shock mounts since the accelerated degradation problems began a few years ago. Sorry, but I simply do not believe that....

 

Contact member cjd777 (Wayne) regarding the upgrade poly shock mounts he has developed. Look up the thread "Top Shock Tower Issue" by cjd777.

 

Ok. Now there's some reading...!

Have to think about which direction from here...and reach out to Wayne, just because.

 

I think Wayne is the way to go. My Welsh mounts have about 10K on them. The right side is a little off center, but both are holding up okay. Some of the others we have seen here disintegrated much more rapidly.

 

I’ve had their mounts for around 6 months now and everything is still perfectly centered.

 

That’s too early to tell if they will fail.

 

Perhaps but still put a few thousand miles on them. Hoping for the best.

 

I don't want to belabor the point or the idea,,, but it seems to me that if the shock post, that far up on the shock assembly, leans forward or back going off center, then the problem, what is creating that much "wiggle room" fore and aft, potentially, has to do with movement in the suspension components lower down. The upper or lower control arms and their bushings come to mind.

In that, things going on that far down the line gets amplified distance wise up at the top most section of the shock (a physics or trig question I don't know the answer too)... So, is the problem with the shock mount, or something else? That's what I'm wondering. Is it that the bolt/shaft movement that we are seeing is being transmitted and amplified up the shock from other failings or movement in the suspension down below?

I mean, I had the rear front subframe mounts that were shot. And was getting movement side to side in the subframe. THAT kind of movement would transfer up the length of the shock showing up as movement in the shock pin and bolt at the mount as viewed from the engine bay. Would also cause premature mount failure as well I'm guessing.

Jus say'n. Still going to be reaching out to Wayne...