Originally posted by dpa43:
As I was giving my SVT a tune up since it had been parked most of the winter, I was cleaning my air filter when I noticed something didn't look right. So WHAT THE F-CK happened here.








exact same thing happened to me...I bought the car about two months ago and went to put in my RU-3530 and saw something looking weird below it (it was the tranny mount aka roll resisitor you have it your hand). I picked it up to see the bolt had snapped just like urs. I soaked the snapped bolt w/ PB Blaster and let it sit over night. Next day i put the snapped end of the screw in a vise and used a huge pipe wrench to grip the "mushroom piece" (you'll know waht i mean if you pull that swiss chees lookin rubber piece off)to get it off. Then went to my local harnware store and bought a 8.8 grade bolt (must be atleast 8 grade or it will snap again SOON). Its a PITA to find the right legnth bolt w/ the right length threads to fit. But trial and error works

I would take it out to tell you the exact length but its way to much of a PITA, but I'll try to help you as much as possible. Just PM me. Like mentioned earlier the whole part is over $100 and you can buy a bolt for a couple bucks. worst comes to worst buy a few diff lengths and use the one that works. you'll be saving ALOT of $.

Justin 98.5 CSVT # 4887 of 6535 (born 2/28/98)