Where art thou, Insidious Motor Mount?

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Re: Where art thou, Insidious Motor Mount?

Post by sethjamesrimrodt »

If the pump is running then I would agree with you on it being a pinched air pipe.
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Re: Where art thou, Insidious Motor Mount?

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After a disheartening conversation with the shop owner, my trust for them went to zero. So I brought the car back home and took another shot. Ended up being bad female terminal connections inside the plug. When the pump went to start up the vibration caused the contacts to connect/disconnect repeatedly.

Problem solved. Light out. Happy driver.
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Re: Where art thou, Insidious Motor Mount?

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fiveandcounting wrote:After a disheartening conversation with the shop owner, my trust for them went to zero. So I brought the car back home and took another shot. Ended up being bad female terminal connections inside the plug. When the pump went to start up the vibration caused the contacts to connect/disconnect repeatedly.

Problem solved. Light out. Happy driver.
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Good job, that could have been a lot worse to find.
I think a lot of us would rather not trust our cars to a shop.
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Re: Where art thou, Insidious Motor Mount?

Post by CosmicVagabond »

So why wont a shop install the puck brand, and only an aftermarket?
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Re: Where art thou, Insidious Motor Mount?

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This thing is 2 years old!

But you have to make a puck mount, it's not a brand. It uses hockey pucks.
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