Rubber mounts Rear axle DIY?

[M42boy]

Tell one of your buddies to come out and will feed him free beer to stand there and be camera guy!    

Works every time.  I don't know how much help I'd be, but I guess I could be camera/beer drinkin' guy.  I'm good at standing there with a beer and yelling "do this, or do that"...   Hahaha.  

I'm trying to start a DIY garage here, but I don't have much to throw towards it, and everyone else seems to be in the same boat.  

[FL318is]

...I will def need a ride home.  There is no way we are going to finish this job in a couple of hours.  Not to mention that #$%^*  Oil leak.:mad:

First thing we are going to do is remove the air box and alt & belt, run the car on a battery boost and watch for seepage.  Then lift and separate.

[M42boy]

After hearing about all these disasterous events involving the timing chain, and the annoyance of all the persistant leaks...   I can't see ANY advantage to a timing chain.

I'll mark that as one more reason to convert to an M or S50 motor!  

[D. Clay]

Is there a correlation with a lot "spirited", high revvin' driving and timing chain trouble? A lot of these cars are on their 3rd-4th owner so a complete history usually unavailable. There are also a lot of them with 200,000 miles and 15 years on them. Perhaps this is just the inevitable and not a sign of a problem area. This stuff happened at 150,000 on Chevy small blocks from 1991.

[FL318is]

Never in 2 million years would you guess this!

[Eurospec]

What am I looking at.... rear bushing?

I sure hope you're documenting all this.

[FL318is]

What am I looking at.... rear bushing?

I sure hope you're documenting all this.

Yes sir, rear bushing!  Pic 1.  Sorry so blurry, I was crying! LOL

These things were so corroded in there that they broke off.  When they broke the upper 1/2 inch of bushing "tube" stayed in. HOWEVER, there is a solution.  We used a small "pneumatic cuts - all" cutting into the remnants, then light hammer and chisel taps. The small fragments in the pic were what was removed.   Then we had to "machine" finish the inside race of the cyclinder housing (were the bolt lives).

I am going to put all this together in a pictorial essay DIY format and offer it to the board.

But I will say the help I got here was 100% on the money and w/o it I would still be crying.  My sincere appreciation to everyone.  This is the place for car enthusiast.

[M42boy]

Wow, those suckers were in BAD shape!  Good thing you replaced them.  

How was the whole job?  Is it all done?

[FL318is]

The mounts are done!  The inner portion of the old mount separated from the main body portion of the bushing itself.  Pic 1 shows.  It was like pulling on bbq ribs.  The bear was the aluminum cyclinder in the bushing itself would not release.  After trying to coax with everything from tapping to wiggle to prying to channel locks to blaster we finally hit them firmly (not hard) and BOOM!  They broke!!!!

Then we moved into the "now what the h#)) are we going to do?"

I have pics and wil post tonight.