motor & trans mounts for 51 f1
 

installing tci mII kit in a 51 soon. what did all do for the motor mounts?
buy from who or fab your own, if fabbed own with what and how?

what about trans? my current trans mount does not allow trans to come oiut without motor cause of the mount. did you fab your own or buy?

im buying a pedal booster kit and i tink the stock x member needs to go

i have a modern small block trans combo

Gwilkrrs

I'm not an MII guy as you know, but I'll take a crack at this. To my knowledge, there are no kits that allow you to maintain the stock transmission X-member, with a modern V8-AT combo. I believe you'd have to severely modify it at the least.

I'd see what TCI has to offer in mounts once you decide on the engine/tranny combo. I'd go with a 302/AOD combo. Stock cross member will have ot go. Good Luck

On my F-1, I ground off the rivots and moved the original trans mount back to just behind the tailshaft of the transmission. This did two things. In that the crossmenmber is under the forward end of the driveshaft it seves a function as a driveshaft loop and bolting it back into the frame restores frame rigidity lost without the trans crossmmber (loss of rigidity to frame trist is significant when the original transmission mount is removed from the frame-step on the running board with and without it to see). I installed a second new trans crossmember at the correct location under the transmision. I am running a sbc with a 700R4 AOD. For engine mounts, I had boxed the front so I fabricated and welded new engine mounts to the boxing plates (reinforced at that location)

So you now have two crossmembers about a foot apart at the rear of the transmission? Have you put something back near the stock transmission x-member location to restore the rigidity? All I did was box. Appears to be OK, but I'd prefer a crossmember.

Yes I do have the two crossmembers. I had originally planned to make more of a structure at the new trans mount crossmember but when I put the old trans crossmember (which ties the frame rails together well on the F-1's) behind the trans yoke, I like how it worked.

wow thanks.
i ordered a set of weld on motor mounts from tci that come with the rubbers
i also ordered a new trans x member that bolts in from them also. that should ties the rails back together nicely.

I saw this K member for 48-52 F1 and thought you might like to see it.
http://www.rbsauto.com/product.asp?P...17659&l1=17658

Looks like it would be easy to build from scratch to fit any trans.