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Pulled the motor from my 36 Panel to be rebuilt. Just started looking for parts I'm going to need. The truck has been sitting since 1944, fortunately inside. The motor apparently had a pretty good oil leak everything is covered with a baked on layer of crud so it's a little difficult seeing what's what. When I took off the rear/side motor mounts there didn't appear to be any rubber or anything in them. Is this correct or was it just gone? I can find new front mounts all over the place just can't seem to find rear ones. Thanks in advance for any knowledge anyone has on this.

If I remember correctly the 1936 truck used the same steel encased rubber mounts as a 1932 passenger car. See the Filling Station, I believe they can rebuild them.

I agree with Gene that your best solution is to get yours rebuilt.

Please check with Steel Rubber products. They are typically the source for the parts and re-vulcanization services that Filling Station and Chev of the 40's use

Thanks for the info, they have them buy on back order.

You may be able to temporarily use later mounts that are readily available, my '33 has later mounts like my '37 has, and has had them since 1980 and they are still working fine.

if your 1933 is a car it is a completely differnt mount.

I realize that, 33 has very different mount style but the motor mounts I used are still the same ones my 37 has. I am talking about the rubber padded mounts. The original 33 mounts were round if I remember correctly and the ones I am using are rectangular. They basically do the same thing, just look different!

But he is looking for TRUCK mounts which are nothing like the car version except for the 1932 passenger car.

"If I remember correctly the 1936 truck used the same steel encased rubber mounts as a 1932 passenger car. See the Filling Station, I believe they can rebuild them."

Augie,

The sandwiched rubber mounts that Gene mentions are easy to take apart to insert new rubber. All that is required is a piece of rubber sheet about 3/8" thick cut to the correct shape. An oxy-acetylene torch is used to heat the upper tabs of the outer metal part so the tabs can be bent back out of the way. Then the new rubber piece is put in place and the tabs bent back to their original position in a vise.

It couldn't be any easier than that, could it?

I did the ones on my '36 PU about 50 years ago and they are still perfect. I'd be glad to send you a photo so you can see how simple those mounts are.

Ray W

I have a 1936 Chevrolet 1 1/2 ton chassis on my fire truck, which had only 2,264 miles when I purchased it. As well, we had a 1936 1 1/2 ton farm truck on the farm where I grew up. In both cases, there is NO SIGN OF RUBBER ANYWHERE on the rear motor mounts, Instead there is an "L" shaped solid steel bracket, one end sits on the cross member and the other part bolts solidly to the bell housing. There is no shock mounting of any kind. I am 99% positive the fire truck was original as I said it only had 2,000 plus miles from new. And the farm truck was exactly the same. Just my input, don't know about a panel truck, but the bigger truck had no shock mounting.

The 1/2 ton had rubber.