goon9:
I have tried something similar on another car I have, (not my Maxima) with
a manual transaxle. I cut up a heavy mountain bike inner tube, trimmed it
into a long strip that I glued and wrapped around the central motor mount
tube. I then used a large vice as an improvised press, and mashed the
glued and rolled rubber plug into the steel ring motor mount insert. This
more or less gave me a solid rubber MM. After I put them in the car, (there were two--like the Maxima) it was great! A nice solid feeling. I could blast through first and second and break the tires loose any time I slammed a gear. That lasted about two months, when I blew the 1st-2nd gear shaft bearing right out of the molded Aluminum pocket inside the trani case! I took it apart to see for myself. An automatic may fare better, but solid poly? In a manual-driven Maxima? I think you're asking for trouble with that application. MM's are designed to cushion trani components as you sequence through gear engagement. Take that ability away from the mounts, and other components, how ever robust, will fail prematurely. The poly would be a better solution in a suspension application IMHO.

 

I already ran solid poly for atleast 30k. No troubles... I never would drop the clutch hard at all, I would always let the clutch slip a tad. I understand what your saying though and that was definetly in mind mind when I switch over. But if the tranny fails.. I can rebuild it again myself .

Good caution though

 

OH! That is a great idea and would save a great amount of maching time. Now to find bigger nuts! I will try this.

 

Yea the nuts on tube idea = good idea! Now I know this is a MM thread so just briefly...goon, what precautions did you take prior to installin poly? What did you do to smoothen up your engine? PM me if necessary.

Chencuye

 

ROFL on reading that out of context.

~Alex

 

I've done all the route cap, rotor, wires, plugs, timing correction, even a brand new distributer which was very $$$$ and did nothing. The last thing I did that fix it entirely was changing the injector plugs.

 

Really? I didn't notice any extra vibration at all on your car when I drove it. Then again, perhaps I'm used to it. One thing is for sure though, you car is the best handling (and I thought smoothest) Maxima I've ever driven!

 

it was a serious suggestion, albeit a shot in the dark.

 

Pff I've done all that, AND religiously when due. Only thing missing is the plugs but how much difference could those really make as long as they're clean.

Oh well, I figured you had something out of the ordinary done

 

corrosion on the part of the wires you can't see...

 

and possibly gap being off? 'course you're supposed to check that anyway, idk

 

any chemicals that can clean that without having to replace the plugs themselves? or perhaps a super-fine wire brush thing that can go up in there?

 

gap atm is .044 and the wires are 2-3 months old replaced in october as part of the process of elimination

 

i think he is referring to the filament between the cap and the electrode.

 

actually I was referring to the connectors on the injectors harness

 

THAT makes more sense.
but i have seen pretty corroded filaments, even tho those came off a mower that a buddy drunkenly broke....