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Old Nov 5, 2007 | 10:13 AM
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This is the mount from my 95 4x4 manual transmission:

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...s/IMG_0681.jpg

The dealer says that this is a mount for an automatic transmission; the manual transmission should have a bar supported with 4 round rubber bushings.

Could anyone elaborate on this? Did a previous owner do something crazy? Is the dealer documentation wrong? Anyone want to peek under their truck and describe what they have?

FYI: the holes are where the screws go in and attach to the tranny, the studs stick out the bottom into the frame support beam.

[IMG]local://upfiles/64692/ABB49730942B4EE48ED76F1408A064A1.jpg[/IMG]
 
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Old Nov 5, 2007 | 02:08 PM
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It may be possible that the previous owner chaged it for who knows why. I know for when I got my 4x4 the crossmember for thetranny mount was seriouly damaged. So I looked all over the junkyards here, But all I could find is a maunal crossmember. So I had to adapt my tranny mount to work on that one. So maybe it was something like this. So here are the pics of a auto 4x4 and maunal 4x4 and even 2wd setups so you can see exactly what you got.

[IMG]local://upfiles/70180/49BB850C89494465B1CFCF026AF4B9B6.jpg[/IMG]

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Old Nov 5, 2007 | 03:02 PM
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Thanks for the reply; that matches what the dealer was showing me. It appears that I have the auto mount but am missing the upper and lower brackets. My only guess is that the transmission was replaced and the parts were lost?

I bought a replacement off ebay because it was the only one I could find that was listed as a replacement for my truck and looked like the one that was already there. When I went to put it on I found that the new one was a 1/2" shorter than the old one which was sitting too low to begin with. I'm just trying to make sense of the situation.
 
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