Funny coincidence,
Yesterday evening I heard a rattle at transmission level and a rubber parts was projected on freeway pavement. It looked like a rubber part and the prop. shaft decided it was superfluous on the car. At home I checked and at first sight I saw nothing abnormal, excepted a slight crack in guibo, I will replace it. My two cents questions, are: shall I replace the guibo with a polyurethane one? This latter is more expensive. Transmission mount is it that thing at rear of transmission in the center and shall I replace something else. The tricky things will be to find what is this rubber block the scorpio lost.
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WTF is this
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I was doing 115 mph one time when I heard a loud pop and saw a guibo chunk bouncing along behind me. 
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Trans mount
On the Scorpio it is highly advised to change the trans mount the same time as the guibo. When one fails it ruins the other part. Some people buy only the guibo, and then come back and buy a second guibo and then trans mount because they thought they could save a few bucks initially.
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May be it is a piece of guibo, I must check more carefully...
Phil D from OPDM, tell me what is the benefit to buy an uprated guibo for an automatic Scorpio. Will it cause more vibration? Basically I want to know pro and con of theses two...
Thanks,
Phil D from OPDM, tell me what is the benefit to buy an uprated guibo for an automatic Scorpio. Will it cause more vibration? Basically I want to know pro and con of theses two...
Thanks,
J.G.C.
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Guibo
It won't cause more vibration there is no benefit in that. It will just last the life of your car, you won't have to worry about replacing that part again.
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Re: WTF is this
Just a comment - I inspected my Scorpio motor mounts for deterioration and found except for some surface rust they were in good condition. Perhaps they had been replaced by the previous owner. When I replaced the Guibo doughnut and the driveshaft center support bearing I also changed out the two universal joints with new ones with grease zerks. After a couple of false starts during the alignment of the driveshaft I finally added a shim under the transmission tail support mount to bring everything back up to spec's. The rubber transmission mount looked almost new but must be sagging a bit - so I simply trimmed the outer edged of a thick round washer on two sides to fit under the transmission foot. After adding a couple of new washers and longer bolts to secure the driveshaft center support bearing everything aligned up great.
Michael
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