BCW help, please

[Edward Turner]

First, many thanks to all who responded to my introduction thread. I gained

a little knowledge and am looking for more. No manuals, books or

documents other than an original BCW brochure and the title came with her

so I’m really in the dark. I suspect the Chevette book that’s in the mail will

be helpful but I’m betting BCW also did some things that won’t be in

there…which brings me here:

I’m calling that the transmission mount. Looks rotten to me, the arrow

points to a tear in the suspension donut. Anyone know if it’s a stock

Chevette item or another mount subbed in?

[ray10]

Yes that is a stock trans. mount you can order it through any parts house.

OR  try to get in touch with a guy name Rick Drake at the chevy forum he is the god of chevette parts. and you can order parts through him.

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[Edward Turner]

Thanks, ray10. Yep, got me a replacement right off the shelf at my favorite

parts store. He’s had 2 in stock since the 80s, the box looked antique.

Hopefully the rubber is still sound, seems fine on the surface.

I’ve been in touch with Rick because with that much play I suspect the carrier

bearing (he called it an axle extension) is probably beat, too. He’s pretty

quick with answers and parts quotes. Still, I’d rather pop that “new” mount in

first and just see where that leads me. I could get luckyoldroadie40790.3672800926

[ray10]

To my understanding there should be some play side to side and up and down ,but none front to back.

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[Edward Turner]

ray10 wrote:

To my understanding there should be some play side to side

and up and down ,but none front to back.

Thank you, that gives me something to check once i get this baby up in the

air.

[Edward Turner]

Okay, so she’s up on jack stands in the rear, front wheels chocked and I’ve

got the nut and big washer off. You can plainly see the mount is torn when

the floor jack starts to lift the trans. I can’t seem to get the tans up high

enough to clear the trans bolt. Still no Chevette manual so I’m just going on

past limited experience…does this mean I don’t have enough tunnel

clearance to change the simple mount? Or, maybe this is a stud and I can

remove it by double nut method?

[Paul Mossberg]

Oldroadie…

I have no idea if this will help or hurt…but Pink MG had issues with the transmission mount in a Chevette powered BCW.

Mark believes BCW built running chassis, then bonded the bodies to the chassis, forever sealing in the engine and trans! There is no clearance above the transmission.

Your diificulties raising the trans high enough to remove the bolt make me suspect you are running into the same issue. 

Here is Pink MG’s trans mount saga:

https://tdreplica.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=139&K W=transmission+mount

Paul Mossberg
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2005 Intermeccanica Roadster

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[Larry Murphy]

 Paul, Thanks for the link to Mark’s BCW trans and other stuff . I thought I had read everything about what’s now my pride and joy but had missed that one. I had tried to explain the clearence issue to OldRoadie but this is much easier to follow since Mark actually did the disassembly and redesigning of the trans mounting plate. Larry Murphy40793.630150463

[Paul Mossberg]

Not bad for a VW TD owner, eh?

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[Edward Turner]

Thanks fellows. I had misunderstood about the tunnel issue and thought

it just hampered removal of the entire trans. I see now it’s a bigger chunk

of work to just replace the tans mount. Not impossible, just more to do.

The link to PinkMGs pix is very valuable, I had not found that thread

before. I might just ponder cutting the mount away and re-engineering it

rather than pulling the entire engine and trans and cutting the fibreglass

floor.   

Whatever happens next I’ll be certain to document it for the next BCW

rebuilder that comes along.

And, there’s another complication. My wife got herself t-boned in town

yesterday in the rain and her car might be totaled as the ‘B’ pillar was

bent all the way into the driver’s seat. It did it’s best impact absorption

crumple and it kept her from getting hurt but now we’re out a car. Looks

like the MG might take a back seat for some time…I’m hoping I don’t have

to sell it to get her back on the road.oldroadie40793.6745601852

[Paul Mossberg]

Thankfully, your wife is OK!

The other car stuff takes a back seat to that!

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[Edward Turner]

Yep, she’s fine and that’s the main thing. It’ll be interesting to see what the

adjuster says about the car; I’ve never seen one with that much bent in the

‘B’ pillar ever track straight again.

Mrs. T even helped me install spring rubbers in the rear this morning after

we fetched the police report and voila! no more bottoming out. Shocks seem

to be doing fine duty and if the rubber insert keeps the bottoming out at bay

on the road it’s even better 🙂

[edward ericson]

Nice!

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