Motor mount issue on M38

Apatriot · Post by **Apatriot** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 1:29 pm

Well,i finally posted pics of my M38 project in the gallery.
In the last photo you can see what bubba did to mount the engine plate to the motor mount.
I am assuming that the F134 engine plate i have will mount up to the motor and resolve this problem.
Any opinions?

Post by **Ryan_Miller** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:14 pm

From the photo it looks as though someone took a plate and bolted it to the original moutning bracket and then bolted the motor mount to it.

If that is what happened, then by getting the correct moutning plate and motor plate could fix your problems.

I don't know if you can mount the motor plate backwards, but a couple more photos of the mount at different angles might help.

Post by **wesk** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 5:40 pm

That's the standard procedure to use a pre CJ3A/M38 front engine plate in a M38 or CJ3A. That's the nice clean way. I've seen some real Bubba jobs where they cut the engine plate mount ear off and weld it back with some gawd awful looking reinforcement plates.

Apatriot · Post by **Apatriot** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 5:52 pm

Great.Thanks for the replys.I will post some better closeup photos,before i start tearing everything apart.

Post by **Ryan_Miller** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 4:53 pm

Wes,

I thought there was something more to that front engine plate. I forgot that the CJ2A and MB plate ears point the other direction.

If he gets the correct plate, then that will solve one problem!

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Motor mount issue on M38

Motor mount issue on M38

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