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I found a cracked front motor mount on both the engine I removed from my car and the replacement from another car. It's this a common failure? Should I add a gusset when I get it weld repaired?

If your speaking of the 1.9 Ford, then yes I believe it is common. If I remember correctly I found 2 cracked in half on two separate occasions. I'm not sure if a gusset would just move the stress point, but it worth a try. I would have reinforced it the last time except that was when I went to the Gen3 so not much point.

Are you referring to the two sheet metal pieces? They break pretty much every time you come to a sudden stop.

Yep, the two piece sheet metal brackets that make up the frat mount (1.9L). Both of the right side brackets were cracked almost exactly the same way.

xvracer wrote:Yep, the two piece sheet metal brackets that make up the frat mount (1.9L). Both of the right side brackets were cracked almost exactly the same way.

Any recent stops (forwards or backwards) more sudden than normal braking? It isn't hard to do and can be hard to spot.

Those are Enterprise parts...so modifying them is a no no.

I found that putting some heavy-duty washers on the bolts going into the engine block helped prevent the cracking.

DaveP