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Put a 360 in my 76 dart where the 318 used to be. Used the 318 mounts and now the exhaust manifold hits the steering coloum. How do I space that out, and how do I know when the motor is sitting straight? Thanks.
 
Get correct engine mounts. Lay a level across the air cleaner housing. when bubble is in center marks, engine is level. And know, I am not being funny, that is seriously how you check level. Of course if the air cleaner housing is foobar'd it could make it difficult. LOL.
 
318's and 360's only share 1 engine mount bracket. I believe its the passenger side. You might try Schumacher for the other side or there is a way to easily modify your old bracket. Check a Mopar Performance book.
 
The driver's side mount is different, but that is only the width of the mount. If your manifold is hitting the column something else may be going on. All you should need to adapt the 318 mount is a small stack of washers, this is how I did it.
 
I bought the Schumaker mounts but haven't mounted them yet. Grade 8 hardware, powdercoated brackets and poly spool bushings. Probably the last mounts you would buy for $150 + shipping. I got mine at Carlisle, $140.
 
Lars said:
The driver's side mount is different, but that is only the width of the mount. If your manifold is hitting the column something else may be going on. All you should need to adapt the 318 mount is a small stack of washers, this is how I did it.
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Me too. Maybe you have the brackets on the wrong side ?
 
whitey said:
I bought the Schumaker mounts but haven't mounted them yet. Grade 8 hardware, powdercoated brackets and poly spool bushings. Probably the last mounts you would buy for $150 + shipping. I got mine at Carlisle, $140.
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Make sure when you install them that you slop some blue loctite on them. The bolts they sent with mine seemed slightly to short so I had a tough time getting them tightened up with lock washers so had to leave them out on 2 of the bolts, found one missing a few weeks later (nut that is) so loctited them when I put another nut back on and was also able to get a lock washer back under one of them I couldnt before, but still used the loctite just to be sure.
 
Check for a collapsed isolator, which is the rubber insert on those spool mounts.
Power steering fluid and oil wreaks havoc with the rubber in those things.

The right way to check for level is to make sure the car is level at the sub-frame, then level the engine off the oil pan.

Why do you people insist on pushing Schumacher mounts?

Never seen or heard of a set that didn't need SOME form of tweaking to get them right.
There's stock parts out there to mount nearly every MoPar combination, what isn't a direct bolt in only takes a slight bit of ingenuity to figure out, so why pay a buttload extra for substandard pieces?

MOPAR did it the right way, so what's wrong with using Mopar parts?

Mark.
 
When your right. Your right, but being right doesn't make it right.
I went via Schmauchers mounts for selffish reasons. I'll keep the better set IMO, a later year (Spool) K-frame for an earlier year Duster.
The swapping of K-frames was un-appealing, an alignment is needed when you swing everything over.
Since I was going to upgrade the braking system, the alignment needed was expected. But at the very least, I can move it around or drive it until I get to the brake swap.
For a $162 to the door and short work on the K frames motor pearch, I think it's win win for me.
 
The bolts being short were a nuisence, but the quality of how the parts fit, and as stated the ever so slight mod to the left perch and I was done. I got mine for a little less. I am not pushing them. I just find it easier than "searching" for the right parts to do the trick. It's not like in the old days when you went to the local salvage yard and there were 50-100 darts available with a huge vairence of options and builds to select the parts you needed. Nowadays you post on a dozen web sites and wait till someone who may have the parts actually catches up to the 21 century and sees your post and responds, IF that person exists and responds :thumbup:

It was fast.
 
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