Heh well here's what I ended up doing.
Passenger side: I ground down the Gen II mount and got it in there.
There are two sleeves involved - the sleeve to hold the rubber and the
sleeve for the thru-bolt. The sleeve for the rubber is much more
substantial on the Gen II mounts... and I figure I gained more by
using the more substantial mount than I lost by grinding it down.
I couldn't grind the driver's side mount down enough without losing
the factory bent edge in the bigger sleeve. By the looks of it, doing
that could have made it unstable unless I did some more intense
modification to the sleeve. I was sick of grinding and re-fitting.
After giving up on wrestling with dealer incompetance, I bought a
driver's side mount from autopartswarehouse.com
(http://tinyurl.com/6hvyhk). It arrived in under 48 hours via ground
shipping (impressive) and installed in minutes.
Just gotta fix the front diff and I'll have it driving again.
Don in CT
89 Dak Vert 318 NV3500 4x4
74 Dart Sport 340
On 7/2/08, Terrible Tom <silvereightynine@aol.com> wrote:
>
> Dave Wilker wrote:
>
> > Tom
> >
> > Can you swap out the old hard parts that fit for the new ones that don't,
> > and still use the new rubber?
> >
>
> The center sleeve should be removeable, but the rubber itself is molded into
> the mount. You could remove it and "transplant it" but to do so would be
> kinda pointless - as it would be easier to grind down the sides of the mount
> to make it fit in the Gen I frame pocket. The mounts are almost the same,
> except for the width of the center sleeve and the rubber bushing - the body
> thickness is the same.
>
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