Long story short, i bought my truck with 3.5" lift, had the transfer case drop with an np242. vibrations were still so bad i swapped in an np231 with an SYE b.c my plans are to go bigger. Recently i took the transfer case drop off and and the fan shroud was hitting, yesterday i put a new radiator in b.c mine was leaking, and figured then i would adjust the shroud.

Today i have been adjusting and it wire tieing it in different places to pull it in one direction. I ended up putting one of the tabs behind the top radiator support to pull the shroud even father away. and there is about 1/2" of space on the top and on the passenger side of the shroud (where it seems to be hitting most) and when the engine is under load (2000 rpm with foot on break) the motor moves toward the shroud causing it to grind

Okay so my question is how much should the engine move under load?, i replaced the drivers side motor mount once because it was shot but the passenger side looks fine and the motor only moves about a 1/2" toward the radiator thus causing it to hit into the shroud. Is 1/2" of movement normal? and its enough gas on the motor to get the tires to start burning out

Thanks for reading and helping!
-Mike

 

i would jack it up and look underneath were the motor mount bolts the the engine on the -passenger side-, mine has broken there twice and its caused 3 radiators to go
but yea the bolts break easy

 

you mean the one bolt to the engine to the mount, or the mount to the frame? b.c the main bolt from engine to mount looks fine.
Thank you for your input
-Mike

 

yea, for me the frame to the mount was good but the mount to the engine was bad causing it to rotate somewhat counter clockwise into the rad...

 

How hard was it to replace your motor mount? i have to do the same thing.