Solid diff mounts

[sosick]

Originally Posted by TheseColorsDontRun

You may as well cancel your order. You're gonna hate it if you want quiet. Get the Whiteline diff inserts if you want more support with minimal, albeit some, additional NVH.

I just messaged them that im gonna send it back

[sosick]

Originally Posted by CHUMPC4R

Well, if you need it for the weekend, then stick it in and see what you think. If its way too much sell em and get the white lines.

Seems like too much work. I believe I have to press these.

[sosick]

Originally Posted by 7thgear

if it's something that would need to be pressed in with the OEM bushing pressed out.. you're gonna have to drop the entire rear cross member and disconnect everything from it... and take it to a shop to do the pressing for you

have fun!

I work at a shop. But I dont feel like droping the whole sub frame down

[sosick]

Originally Posted by F1point4

20130921-CuscoDifferentialBrace-004-2 by VictorN07, on Flickr

I installed the Cusco diff brace. It's not going to be super fun doing this.

Tips
+ Removing the rear wheels gives you a good deal of more working room
+ Have a breaker bar to break the diff bolts loose.
+ You will want to drop the sway bar so you can get the wrenches/ratchets on the back of the diff.
+ Undoing the bolt that holds the lower control arm to the rear crossmember makes it 100x easier, but it may mess up your alignment. IT IS POSSIBLE TO DO IT WITHOUT LOWERING THIS END OF THE CONTROL ARM. I DID. You will need the right blend of combination wrench and adjustable wrench to get in there to hold the nut.
+ I removed a section of the exhaust to make room to work the wrenches as well.

Yea it is a lot of extra work but it may be worth it.

It looks like the Megan is a replica of J2 Engineering or vice versa. The photos I've seen of each (Megan is pink? J2 is blue?) show different bolts. The J2 ones look too small to hold the brace to the crossmember; the holes are very large. The Megan looks like they come with rings. Please let us know what you end up getting with your brace.

The kit came with super nuts to hold the cusco brace on, if I recall correctly it took like a 24mm box wrench to hold the nut.

I have actual solid mounts that get pressed into the oem mounts. Thinking of returning them already.

[7thgear]

Originally Posted by sosick

I work at a shop. But I dont feel like droping the whole sub frame down

[sosick]

Originally Posted by 7thgear

[sosick]

F1point4

im actually exchanging the mounts for that bar

[Draco-REX]

The whole reason why there are rubber mounts is to reduce noise and vibration. That's their sole purpose. So replacing any rubber mount with a hardened or solid one will increase noise. The harder the mount, the more noise will be transferred.

[7thgear]

well

also shock

with a solid mount and hard driving there is an increased chance of the diff case cracking or having the bolts shred themselves out of the rather thin aluminium plate.

[sosick]

Originally Posted by 7thgear

well

also shock

with a solid mount and hard driving there is an increased chance of the diff case cracking or having the bolts shred themselves out of the rather thin aluminium plate.

After all the responses from this thread I decided to return the mounts and pick up a support brace instead. Thanks guys