inside of my car when the car is on idle(park,drive,neutral,reverse) the car vibrates all over in all gears, but the shaking reduces when its on neutral and park, but i can still feel it all over. And this only happens when the engine warms up not when cold
*when you can't hear the engine and it is silent, its because i was holding the mic on the camera by accident lol my bad* but yea this is my car's engine, when i hold the brake and tap on the gas it slightly moves up and down, is this a sign of worn engine mounts?, cause my car shakes on idle, not when i speed up
You have to determine how much the engine is moving around when you brake-rev. Some movement is normal. If it looks like its going to jump out of the car, at least one mount is bad.
You can also check by prying near the mount and watching the rubber. Make sure its not cracked or separated from the metal.
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where are the mounts located? i found the one on passenger side, (*view from the video i posted* it is located on the left side of the engine),i know there are two but i cant seem to find the other one.
ok, so i finally had some money to spend on repairs for my car(lol), so i took my car to my local garage shop, and i told them all the symptoms. The mechanic test drove it
and said most likely its the mounts. He did a quick visual inspection, and said that the passenger side mount looks like its broken(he never took it out to inspect, im gonna ask him to do that tomorrow). Here are the estimates
$110 for aftermarket mount or
$160 for OEM toyota mount.
$38 for labor
so, since money doesn't come easy for me, i don't want to pay for this
and not having any real positive effect. So, does it sound reasonable?
and yea i paid $157 with taxes included for the right passenger engine mount. It had no effect what so ever, the vibration is still the same. Sucks, i just wasted some good money lol but yea now what else can be the culprit? Yea, i can tolerate some vibration, but this vibration is too much. It drives me nuts! SO far i have cleaned the PCV, MAF, THROTTLE BODY, NEW SPARK PLUGS, replaced RIGHT ENGINE PASSENGER MOUNT.
Is the vibration the same in Drive/Reverse/Neutral gears?
Does it get smoother if you rev the engine in neutral or in drive with the brake held?
Do you have access to a floor jack and a block of wood to raise the engine up an inch, so you can isolate it from the frame? If it gets smoother, it's almost surely the mounts. If it's the same, you could have an engine vacuum leak, misfiring cylinder, bad spark plug, bad coil pack, or something else.
If you suspect it's engine-related and not mounts, you can try this dirty trick to see isolate whether an individual cylinder is problematic:
well i had a bad vibration in my car an 96 corolla in reverse only. And it ended up being my timing belt tensioner. I don't think that engine has a timing belt but i don't know does the chain last forever? Cause if the mechanic believes it's from that side of the car it could be the chain.
I have a 2000 Corolla with the same symptoms as described above. My wife has a '97 Corolla that also had these symptoms, but we eventually replaced all the engine mounts and it's fine now - smooth as silk.
BUT - I want to point out that we had to replace ALL of the engine mounts. Just replacing one didn't do the trick. I tried that too.
What happened was I replaced the transmission mount during the summer and it felt a lot better, but when the weather got cold (I'm in Ohio) and the rubber started getting hard, the vibration came back.
My 2000 is now experiencing the same thing. It shakes like a paint can on a mixer when the temperature outside drops into the 30's, but on a day like today, when it's 50ish, it's noticably better and seems fine when it's 80° outside.
I've delt with this a bit so hopefully I can shed some light on it. I have only had to replace the front motor mount (passanger side of engine bay). One of mine went out at 280K & the other went out at 265K so they made it a pretty long time. The factory mounts are fluid filled. I don't think there is an aftermarket mount made that is fluid filled. Don't get an aftermarket mount!! It will vibrate like crazy with an aftermarket mount. It's really no better than a bad factory mount.
One of the signs it's bad is that you can see a wet spot around it where the fluid leaked out. It's a light oil type fluid.
They are expensive but worth it. I've bought both mine used on ebay. Inspect the pic and make sure it is actually an OEM mount before you buy it.
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