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pete black

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previous posts concerning vehicles reminded me of a factory recall on a 1968 chevrolet impala i owned. seems the motor mounts were prone to fail and in the event gm was afraid the torque of the engine would cause the gas linkage to accelerate the vehicle out of control. gm's cure was to apply a short length of chain and literally chain the engine to the frame near the mount. anybody else remember that or any other oddball fixes.
 
I remember those. My brother bought a new 68 Nova with a 350. They had the same recall on those. I was thinking that one had a cable though,not a chain.
 
Sounds like a large manufacturer's fix. It still goes on today. It's rare to have an admission of guilt for a problem. Obviously the fix would be an effective engine mount not a log chain or cable.
 
Some friends of ours bought a Chrysler PT Cruiser about 9 years ago. The whole car got recalled. Seems that the shipload of them coming from God-knows-where ran into a big storm. All the cars on deck and probably below decks got thorough salt water baths.

Stan
 
i used the chain thrick back in the '80's on my '68 z-28 camaro after i tore the motor mounts twice street racing it, it worked until i sold the car a year later due to police harrasment for some odd reason
 
I remember those, scrawny little mounts that were very prone to break. They "fixed" them with a cable loop. Then later modified the mount with an interlocking steel safety hook, but even that would eventually fail.

I was delivering a customers car one day, think it was a 66 Impala, 327. I had to make a left turn across a busy divided highway. I had sat for a long time waiting for traffic to clear, and made my move. When I took off, the engine rared up and the throttle went wide open. I had the wheels turned left and it launched into a simi- doughnut... Right in front of a cop! Out of control, missed the street I was turning on, into the ditch, out of the ditch, sideways in the street by the time I found the key to shut it down.

The cop didn't stop me. To this day I don't know why.

I told the owner what just happened, asked if she wanted me to take it back and fix it... "No", she calmly replied, "It's been like that a long time, I just turn the key off when it does it".
 
I think the idea was to protect the system and actually find out how many mounts were failing as if it did fail, then a new mount was installed under the recall.
 
the later throttle cable instead of linkage was a fix for not transmitting engine movement to carb. happened to me once. first reaction was to try to pull pedal back with my foot-got pretty wild before I came to my senses & found switch---
 
I remember that fix too. Back in the day, my Dad had a Corvette repair shop on N. Broadway (US 81 hwy.) in Wichita KS, but I don't think he had to do that to any of the Corvettes that came thru the shop, but I remember that motor mount thing.
 
I used a set of tractor tire chains for many years that had one of those cables used to repair a broken cross chain attaching link.

Motor mounts of that era were not designed so that when they failed they would stay in place. Mounts today are designed so that when they fail the steel brackets keep the mount from pulling apart.
 
I had a 65 Impala and it broke a couple of mounts. Then a 67 Impala with a 396 and it broke a couple too. I finally had the cable repair put on mine to keep the engine in the car.:) TDF
 
I actually had one of those Chevy cables laying around. I don't know if I still have it ? Might be worth a fortune now to make a correct restoration !
In our 1981 Ford F350 the aftermarket motor mounts to go from a 351M to a 460 looked kinda weak but so far held. Only took me maybe 20 years to finally bolt a chain in there in case they let loose.
It goes on the LH side doesn't it ?
 
I remember on my 64 Impala, the bracket broke that held the clutch linkage. I was at the Raleigh,NC fairgrounds and cranked it in gear and drove it almost sixty miles to Asheboro, NC without stopping, and only ran one stop sign.
Next day, went to the dealer where I bought the car, I hadn't finished speaking when the parts man turned around and handed me a new bracket out of a bin full. Probably had at least fifty in it. My brother in law welded it in for me.
 
My brother works for a drug testing company. They bought some new Ford Excursions as company vehicles. They took one of them back to the dealer to have running boards put on it and got a call from the dealership. It seems they couldn't put on the steps as the undercarriage was so rusted through it wouldn't hold. On a brand new vehicle.

Come to find out it had been one that they did salt spray testing on. It was supposed to be destroyed and somehow ended up on a trailer going to a dealership. It got replaced real fast.
 
I had a '65 Impala with a 300 hp 327. It was rough on motor mounts. The fan would really make a racket on the shroud when one would break. The last one I put on it had an "L" shaped piece that reached up and over the top half of the mount. The rubber broke on it too, but the "L" bracket kept the engine down and the throttle from sticking open.

I do remember guys having a short piece of chain tying the two pieces together, but I didn't realize it was a Chevy sanctioned "fix".

Don't remember the cable.
 
Yes. Official recall to place a short cable around the exhaust manifold on one side to limit movement of the engine. I think it was on the left side.
 
Gm announced another one Friday, the new 4.3 and 5.3 in the trucks need the computer re-flashed so they don"t run so hot while idling that the exhaust can light the truck on fire.
 
My brother in law had a early to mid sixties Buick and I don't remember the model. It did have a big block of some sort, maybe a 455, or was that an Olds engine? It had a motor mount break when he was going around a corner in town at night. Marilyn and I were riding with him at the time and all of a sudden we took off in a hurry and went flying around that corner. Marilyn and I piled up against the passenger side door until he got it straightened out. He was a very conservative driver so my first thought was "what's wrong with him"? I think he chained it down till he could get a new mount, if I remember right. Jim
 
We had a '68 Chevy Impala 2Dr HT, 307, powerglide and the cables running from the LH exhaust manifold to the top left A arm, it was a GM recall on '68 full sized small block cars, if not when the motor mount breaks (notice I said "when" not "if") It stops the engine from dropping down and pulling the throttle open.
 
I remember the factory fix, a cable looped around the upper A frame shaft and attached to two ex manifold bolts. As others state, my pre GM fix was a little chain under one ex manifold bolt, with just a little slack and the other end welded to the frame rail.
 
(quoted from post at 10:55:05 01/15/14)
previous posts concerning vehicles reminded me of a factory recall on a 1968 chevrolet impala i owned. seems the motor mounts were prone to fail and in the event gm was afraid the torque of the engine would cause the gas linkage to accelerate the vehicle out of control. gm's cure was to apply a short length of chain and literally chain the engine to the frame near the mount. anybody else remember that or any other oddball fixes.
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Yup, put in several of those on Impalas, Chevelles, Camaros, etc.
 
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