phins1372

I realize this is a long dormant thread, but I am hoping someone here can assist me. I am an in nearly identical situation as RatboneRanch was in., replacing a water pump and thermostat on their 996. I have a 1999 996 C2 Coupe, that I needed to loosen the rear engine bracket support to fit the old/new water pumps out and in. Before loosening anything, I took a jack with a piece of 2x6 wood and snugged it up at the end of the oil sump nearest the bracket, carefully making sure the weight of the engine was well supported.. When the job was completed, everything went back together, except that the alignment bolt was off just enough that there was no way to thread it. I attempted to jack the engine up and down a bit, but the bracket just moved with the engine, despite loosening both the lower and the upper nuts attaching it to the face of the engine. I did not attempt to loosen the motor mounts. I believe that they are original to the car, and they appear so rusted/frozen that I think there is a very likely chance that if I try to free them, they will break. Ill attach a few pictures of the alignment bolt, and what you can see from the motor mounts from the bottom of the car. The stretch on the mount seems to indicate that I should be replacing those as well. The rear bumper and most of the exhaust is out of the car, so you will see missing/broken O2 sensors in the images. This may be the best time to replace those mounts, but I am a bit nervous about doing it myself. I have a couple of questions. 1) How serious a problem is the missing alignment bolt/slightly off mounting bracket. If the car were driven like this, would it be damaging? 2) If I were to order new mounts and remove the existing hardware, would that allow me to move the support bracket back into place to get the alignment bolt threaded? Thank you all so much in advance. Any guidance here would be GREATLY appreciated.

Hi Loren, I greatly appreciate any help you can provide in getting the correct code for: 1999 C2 Becker CDR-220 Type: 4462 Seri: W5005600 Thanks!