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Old 03-30-2014, 04:47 PM   #8
Alex Denysenko
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Default Re: Breaking bell housings

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Originally Posted by Alan Roehrich View Post
I would never use a steel or solid mount on a transmission. I've put in dozens of race car transmissions.

I use an ordinary stock replacement mount, with two radiator hose clamps around it as a safety device. Or a urethane mount. In 30 years of working race cars, including a lot of years as the person in charge of race car work in a well respected transmission shop, I have never seen a properly installed rubber or urethane transmission mount cause a broken case. But I have stopped several cars from breaking cases by replacing a steel mount with a correctly installed rubber or urethane mount.

If I'm not using motor plates, I use urethane mounts, or one steel mount on the driver's side and a urethane mount on the passenger side.

You do have flex, a vibration, or a misalignment. You may not have it identified, but it is there.

Adding a bolt on bellhousing merely moves the weak point to the case behind the pump, and when it breaks there, it will dump fluid under your tires.
I agree 100% solid motor mounts and a poly trans mount is the best way to go
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