'79 motor mount question

[Rupesy]

Can anyone tell me from the photos if it may be time for new mounts?

The gap there makes me think the passenger side mount has compressed:


The engine seems to be directly sitting on the crossmember:



Here is the driver side mount:

[MPDano]

I don't think they compress as the old style Motor Mounts are solid Rubber. My old ones were actually broken in half. I bought good used ones from 928 Intl.

The pics you posted definitely don't look right.

[Mrmerlin]

looks like a new set of MMs will be a good thing here
NOte you have early mounts and they dont crush like the new style does,
However these appear to have crushed

[paris]

replace the mounts with later style, they are much better

[MPDano]

Originally Posted by paris

replace the mounts with later style, they are much better

How do you do that? Mounting is totally different.

[Rupesy]

Just to close this thread out with a conlusion, I finally got a chance to tackle this task (over 4 years later) and here is what I found. The damper struts were toast as well. I will post my progress on a possible conversion in my much newer thread:

79 motor mounts

Driver side


Passenger side: