Well for quite a while I have been hearing a loud klunking sound comming from under the hood.
Finaly had the time to really look for the source, and I'm pretty sure I found it Just need some info on how to fix w/o going to dealer hopefully.


These are pics are what I think should be the rear motor mount?
Notice the hole where I would think a bolt is supposed to be.
Heard this sound for a while I always thought it was my SRI hitting my hood, till I thru the stock intake back on and the sound got louder...




I drive pretty hard but can that really cause this?
My tranny was fixed by dealer a while back, could they have forgotten to put this back on? But that was like 6 months ago

 

lol... dude thats messed...

 

Man, did you buy that new or used??? That's somthing the dealership should fix for free...

 

yeah i did that to my front mount; i snapped that a year ago. that's when i decided to harden my mounts.

 

Brand new back in march of 05, bout 6 months ago the dealer replaced tranny.
I'm thinking they just dident put it back on.. but who knows

 

that bolt is a pain in the a$$ to put back in after you drop the tranny. if that bolt wasn't in there for 6 months you would have heard the noise for that long...it's likely that it wasn't torqued properly when it was reinstalled and either came loose or snapped. take the car back.

 

Make sure you pick up a grade 8 bolt from the hardware store. You risk it shearing off if you don't. Maybe a couple drops of red loctite when you put it back together.

Use a floor jack to move the motor/tranny around and work it through.

 

I hope you mean when the DEALER puts it back together... that's got warranty written all over it.

 

Dude its a bolt. Hardly worth the trouble to take it in and mess around with the service department run-around.

 

It sounds like a fairly important bolt, that someone above said was a pain in the **** to get to. If the dealer screwed it up when they fixed his tranny, they need to be aware of it and do the repair themselves in case something else goes wrong down the road.

 

Dude I can have that bolt replaced in like 2 mins, its very easy. With the cost of gas money alone its not worht the trip to the dealership. Let alone the time or waiting. Yeah its there fault, but It might be in your best interest to replace it.

 

The voice of reason has spoken.

 

dealer is only like 3-5miles from me, I took it in on the 21st.
Told the dumb a**s "My rear motor mount bolt is missing, and causing my motor to move and make KLUNKING noises."
They say, take a wild guess "We'll look at it and see where the noise is comming from sir." After an hour or so of looking at the only EVO, and only RallIart on the whole lot.
They come and say.. We found that your rear motormount bolt is missing, we do not have the part in stock we'll call you when we get it in. Have a nice Day!
Yeah cause my motor floping around is not a safty issue or anything.

Anywho I thru a temp. fix on there, ahh the power of bending clothing hangers...
2 days and its still holding!