I am going to redo the engine craddle on my girlfriends car so we can keep the engine/trans in it! Sadly didnt meet the recall ( which is BS!!) so I am getting a new car lift so I am goin to wait to install it before under taking this. I was poking around and saw a Chrysler "jig" it looked like to replace this. Does anyone have any info on this? Like measurements and or pictures? I work at a fab shop so I can make one if I have something to go off of or any idea how it works or where it connects.
Thanks,
Shep

 

Well I have come to the conclusion that the engine craddle is part of my loud front end noise since I have replaced EVerything in the front ( sway bar links, complete lower a arms, quick struts, tie rod ends, and now steering rack). After replacing the steering rack, I noticed while up in the air when I had someone move the wheel all the way to either side the whole craddle would twist almost. This week at the shop I am going to just patch the front rust holes with some 7 ga formed stainless patches that I am going to run across the sides/ bottom of the whole . I will also be running a couple formed "stabilizers" in the front two long ears and. Maybe on the back two. I would really like to reverse engineer one and draw it solid works and make one from sheet metal but no junk yard around here has one and I don't have the time to take it out, draw it, build it and install without having a family car. I did send an email to doreman products and hope they might see there is a need for reasonable replacement ones

 

Me and my business partner were thinking on making a new one for the ladies car. Think if we made a fixture we could sell them? We have a 6'x12' Hd plasma table in the fab shop and will soon have a 8'x12' water jet also along with an NC press break. We do piece part and assemblies for the machine building world along with fixing heavy equipment. Think there could be a market for a few of these? Doesn't seem like no one else is making them.... We would sell it as an aftermarket add-on.

 

Even though I am thinking on making these possibly...I did get in contact with Dorman Products and was told by one of their people that they actually are working on getting tooling for them and I guess they are seeing if in production, it will pay for the tooling. Even though I am a spec to them, I reassured them they would see plenty of sales haha.