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      01-14-2016, 12:48 AM   #80
Finnegan
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Drives: Z4M/. Z3M, E36/46 M3
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Originally Posted by Varinn
Took a couple days to get to it, apparently part of my vibration came from my motor mount bolts on the passenger side coming loose. Best guess is it happened during trans mount install, cause it was fine before, but vibrated on the post install test drive.

So that was a fiasco, I learned of the motor mounts when my vanos pressure line blew up the day I made my last post. It's all fixed up now but it still had vibration issues.

I re&re'd the mounts again this morning, for the record removing the entire bracket is the way to go. I was able to pull the top bracket, mounts, and crossmember as one piece. I removed the cups and assembled it all on the bench then took the lower crossmember back off, installed the upper bracket with mounts attached. Following that you just pop the crossmember over the lower studs and bolt it up.

TLDR: rogue tranny mounts are good on their own, but do not use the enforcers. The extra noise and vibration is just not worth it.
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