oinojo Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 right now im in a pickle... ive searched all over the net trying to figure out how you guys were able to install the tranny mount and i have no luck. Ive also slotted the hole of my original tranny crossmember in order to try and move it a tad forward, but its still too short. Any help would be awesome... jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oinojo Posted July 28, 2006 Author Share Posted July 28, 2006 desperate bump!!~! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evildky Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 your not gonna get anywhere slotting the hole as the trans mount is a saddle that stratles the crossmember, what I did was to cut the stock crossmember into thirds put the 2 sides in place and bolted the mid section to the trans and positioned the trans and tack welded the pieces together, keep in mind that the KA trans sits at an angle so you might beed to add some pieces, in my car being one of the first series, I had to move the center sections back about 2 or 3 inches and I aligned a piece of steel tubing on each side to allow for more contact area to weld if that makes any sence at all, I'v run this mount for 2 years with no problem, later chassis might be a bit different but I suspect your still gonna have to cut and weld the crossmember Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oinojo Posted July 28, 2006 Author Share Posted July 28, 2006 pallnet from zcar.com suggested that i buy a bone stock GM transmission mount and that it should be perfect to use with my stock tranny crossmember. By the looks of it, it should work perfectly but has anyone else on this board gone this route? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oinojo Posted July 29, 2006 Author Share Posted July 29, 2006 Author: pallnet Date: Jul 28, 10:56pm Slot the stock Z tranny member and mount the GM mount to the tranny. It all goes together with no issues. Did this today!!! no problems whatsoever... i think that this should be included in a KA tranny conversion sticky one of these days. It makes things less stressful. Thanks jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallnet Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Glad to have helped. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveshybridz Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 oh good im glad you got it together, what year GM transmission mount did you end up getting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oinojo Posted July 31, 2006 Author Share Posted July 31, 2006 oh good im glad you got it together, what year GM transmission mount did you end up getting? well first i asked the guy at NAPA for a 1977-1982 Chevy Caprice... turned out there were none available so i told him that i just needed a general motors transmission mount and was lucky enough to have one available. Unfortunately i dont know what car he looked up for or if he just looked it up under the car manufacturer GM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallnet Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 They are allover Ebay. http://motors.search.ebay.com/?from=R40&satitle=gm+transmission+mount BTW, the urathane ones made by Energy suspension are a little taller/thicker and not recomended unless you have a way to lower the tranny X-member by about 1/4-1/8 of an inch. This one might put the U's in the driveshaft under some stress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oinojo Posted July 31, 2006 Author Share Posted July 31, 2006 is there a specific car that i could find this at an automotive parts store? Most people who work at autozone or Kragen wont know what im looking for unless they plug it in the computer ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evildky Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 I don't think that will work with the eraly stlye crossmember, I think it's still too far back? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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