[Mahler9th]

My application is racing, and I my car had a fabbed up solid mount set-up in that location when I bought it. Basically this set up was 3/16 inch thick alu flat plate bolted to the tranny mount, and spacers to get the tranny nose height in the proper location.

At some point early on, I re-installed the engine/tranny and damaged the threads on one side. I started drilling for a thread repair product (if I recall correctly it was a Helicoil), but allowed the bit to go too fast and hardened the material.

At that point I could have just gone one step larger with thread repair, but I decided on a different approach. I did not want to buy another expensive drill bit or thread repair kit. And I do not have welding skills or equipment.

I bought two pieces of cylindrical steel bar about an inch in height and 2 inches in diameter. I drilled through one of them with a hole big enough for the mounting bolt. I drilled and tapped the other one. Thread pattern for the mounting bolt. Let's call these "spacers." The material cost about $2 and I already had the necessary drill bits and taps.

Then I drilled three holes in the threaded spacer for M8 socket head bolts. Then I centered it up and drilled corresponding three holes in the control arm. So now I have the spacer on that one side attached to the control arm with three M8's. It's center contains the "new threads" for the tranny mount bolt. On the other side is a spacer with equal height.

This was an easy and inexpensive approach for my application, which did not need any type of rubber in that mounting location.