Motor mount removal?

Hello,

To better assist you please let me know if your model is just a Park Avenue or an Ultra. Also I need to know the fourth and eighth digit of your VIN and your engine size in liter.

I have attached a picture and numbered the hardware. Which number are you having problems with?

Hello,

Well, good news bad news. First lets get the bad out of the way. This is what I have in the manual. So I do not have a visual on removing or replacing the mount.

Cutlass and Malibu only (3.1L and 3.4L).

Note: Removal and installation procedure given on these vehicles only due to the complicated procedure involved.

With that well the good news, we can do what we can to work through this together.

The web site. Thanks for that but I need your VIN to see.

Next, thanks for the information but you did not give me the engine size in liter and my information is only listed as liter and model of car such as the K and I have many to choose from. So when you can please provide the liter.

Okay, I have attached another picture but shows the mount from the frame side. If I understand you correctly the mount part you are having problems with mounts to this part where I have the arrow? Yes?

So you have the bolts off where it mounts to that mount but not where it mounts to the engine and you said you can not get to it due to a pulley. Which pulley? On many of the models I have worked on the pulleys if they have bolts on them either have holes in them so you rotate the pulley to the position you need to put the tool or they press on/off like power steering pulleys many times. Which is your case?

Can you send a couple of pictures of what you are looking at?

You do have a jack under your engine and it is braced, yes?

If the picture in m head is correct on what you are talking about if you disconnect the mount connected to the engine from the mount on the frame at that point can you jack the engine up just enough to clear getting the belt out between them?

Waiting to hear back from you.

Hello,

Okay, located the below picture. If I understand we need to get 5 and 6 apart or out of the way. Am I correct?

I do not have any visuals in my information other than the picture above.

Can you remove the pulley off of the power steering pump (AZ has the tool) and then get to the mount bolts and remove the mount that way?

Thanks for the other post you are correct others seem to have the same problem. What was Buick thinking?

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I attached the tool for your viewing.

If you have never used one ask them to make sure you understand because the parts that go over the pulley end are in two halves and a ring slides over. Make sure you have the rod centered in the middle of the pulley so you do not damage the pulley and mark where the pulley is to be sure when you press it back on right. Slow and steady are the two words for the day.

You use the same tool to press it back on so lube the shaft a little.

Also, before you remove it stand to the side or look from above to get a good view of how all the pulley wheels line up. That way when you install you can verify. If it is a fraction off you could shred the belt you probably do not want to do this twice but think how fast you would be the second time!

Next, for your safety please make sure you jack/brace the engine so when you remove the mount the stress is off of it.

Yes, you can remove the pulley wheel without messing t things up if you use the right tool and go easy.

Well, I do not have that in the book here on how to remove but that is how you remove the many types of power steering pulleys.

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Hey, also one last thing, it looks like you may have some recalls on your vehicle. The dealer may fix these for free. Please contact the dealer service department, give them the VIN number of your car and have them check on these to see if they apply to you.

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Yep soon of these designs have little to be desired. Here is what the book says about changing the belt with diagrams below.

INSTALLATION
1. Install the drive belt.
2. Install the engine mount bracket front upper and lower studs and spacers.
3. Install the engine mount bracket front upper and lower nuts. Tighten the nuts to 78 Nm (58 ft. Lbs.).
4. Install the engine mount to engine mount bracket nuts. Tighten the nuts to 87 Nm (64 ft. Lbs.).
5. Remove the floor jack.

Check out the diagrams (Below). Let us know what happens and please upload pictures or videos of the problem.

Cheers, Ken

Hello,

You must use a jack under the engine pan to hold it up while doing the job, also remove the negative battery cable before you begin. Here are some diagrams (below) of the job being done. Please let us know if you need anything else to get the problem fixed.

Those don't break very often, so you'll find what you need in any salvage yard. You may also still be able to order them through the dealer. This is not a critical application, but when you use original bolts, you'll be sure they were hardened properly for the intended application.

That sounds reasonable for parts and labor. The alternative to the dealership is the friendly neighborhood clean repair shop. I own a independant clean repair shop and its very important that every customer leaves happy. We depend on repeat loyal customers. So we can not afford to have a customer leave feeling they have been overcharged or treated unfairly. Ask neighbors. Im sure there is somebody who owns a shop near you that values their customers like I do. Good luck.