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My wife drives a '95 Jeep Cherokee Sport. The other night about a mile from home she said it made a loud bang, like she had hit a pot hole. Upon raising the hood, I found that the right side motor mount had sheared the bolts. the car was 3000 miles out of warranty, and the dealer priced me $780 to R & R the engine. I decided to do it myself. It took my son and I 2 hard days to pull the engine and put it back in. Most of this time was spent because the upper bell housing bolts are special Torx head bolts, and you couldn't get even the Torx's socket on them. It cost me $28 and much running around to find the right box end wrench. Needless to say I put the engine back with just standard grade 8 bolts. In the time we spent, we could have pulled the engine and trans from my Type 3 and completely rebuilt them. VW doesn't use any special bolts, or need special tools to just remove the engine from the car, and mostly to rebuild the engine. Why can't modern cars be manufactured that way???????????? Maybe John J. can clue us in as to why they went to "Torx's" bolts and screws. Thank you for letting me rant..... -- Russ Wolfe russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- Too much? Digest! mailto:type3-d-request@vwtype3.org Subj=subscribe