Motor mount? Or normal

[Brahmajoe]

Ebrake on. Foot on brake in drive. Normal movement or excessive?

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[Tiny]

Ditto. Why you asking? Something feel/sound weird when driving?

 

[ShadowsPapa]

If the engines in my cars moved that much I'd be concerned. I need to check my truck. That seems like a lot of flex to me. I viewed it full screen on my largest computer screen and it's got me wanting to look at mine.

Looks normal. If the motor mount was broken the engine would hop up and down.

No, it would not hop up and down, why would it hop?
Have you seen an engine with a busted mount, the rubber complete unbonded from the steel - it would sit and not move until or unless you goosed it and then it would rise up on the left side up against the safety catch.
Seen a lot of broken motor mounts and for a smooth running engine, frankly, they can sit there and not move at all until you goose them.
Example was the engine in my son's Eagle when he had it - all motor mounts were sheared and the engine actually moved forward about 1 inch and yet it could sit there and run and run and never move - until you goosed it. The mounts were all sheared off.

 

[Brahmajoe]

I’ve had this idle vibration I’ve been chasing, no codes so was looking at things like mounts for engine/transmission and the other think I was thinking is torque converter but it really doesn’t have any problems shifting

 

[Brahmajoe]

If the engines in my cars moved that much I'd be concerned. I need to check my truck. That seems like a lot of flex to me. I viewed it full screen on my largest computer screen and it's got me wanting to look at mine.



No, it would not hop up and down, why would it hop?
Have you seen an engine with a busted mount, the rubber complete unbonded from the steel - it would sit and not move until or unless you goosed it and then it would rise up on the left side up against the safety catch.
Seen a lot of broken motor mounts and for a smooth running engine, frankly, they can sit there and not move at all until you goose them.
Example was the engine in my son's Eagle when he had it - all motor mounts were sheared and the engine actually moved forward about 1 inch and yet it could sit there and run and run and never move - until you goosed it. The mounts were all sheared off.

Let me please know if you do check yours and if it’s similar

 

[Cburd61]

Looks like a little too much movement to me. But, it depends on the compound the mounts are made of, and how much flex the engineers designed into them. I’m sure a few “old timers” on here remember welding a chain to the upper and lower motor mounts, back in the day. My old CJ5 had a built 360 in it. It had so much torque, I was going through motor mounts every other month. Not the ideal solution, but a hunk of chain helped.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Looks like a little too much movement to me. But, it depends on the compound the mounts are made of, and how much flex the engineers designed into them. I’m sure a few “old timers” on here remember welding a chain to the upper and lower motor mounts, back in the day. My old CJ5 had a built 360 in it. It had so much torque, I was going through motor mounts every other month. Not the ideal solution, but a hunk of chain helped.

It's more than mine has............ not by a whole lot, but it is more.

I did an experiment - I told my wife get in, start it, hold brake FIRMLY, put it in gear, and rev the engine but hold the brake and don't let it move.
She did - 3 times. Not as much as the OP showed. Yes, the engine raised a bit but then it literally lifted the left front corner of the truck! The whole thing twisted then the rear tire started to squeal on the pavement.
The engine came up ~ 2/3 that much, before the whole body started to flex and I thought - holy cow, it's twisting about like my Javelin does with that built 360 - but the Javelin is unibody and it's going to flex a hell of a lot.
Impressive how the torque of that little V6 twisted that truck.
But the engine only rose maybe ~ 2/3 of the OP's engine.

In other words, the whole truck flexed once the engine reached about 2/3 what his lifted.

Not saying it's broken, and there's a lot of "in betweens" in motor mounts before you can say they are fully delaminated.

It could be a partial breakdown of the mount without it coming clear loose.
Or, yours just moves that much.

Is it broken? Define broken. Could be "breaking down" but not totally apart. Or could be that one just flexes a lot more than mine.
In any case, mine didn't climb up that much .... but without getting under and taking a look, it's all a matter of judgement so far. Me, I'd crawl under it and look things over. If it's broken, you'll know by looking.

CJ5 - there's memories, my little brother being a big Jeep CJ and Wrangler fan. I was working on them as a mechanic back then - it had to be a 72 or later to have the 360. The Buick engine was still used 1970-71 until AMC revamped and tooled up to use the 360 in Jeeps

(the CJs saw a lot of the I6s).

Plus motor mount safety requirements came into play in there somewhere - interlocking catches were made onto mounts to prevent the engine from rising up.

Chevy had a safety cable to prevent the left side from raising up in event of a broken mount and locking the throttle linkage open. The bracket bolted to the exhaust manifold area and the cable went around the upper control arm pivot shaft. Later they had safety catches on the mounts - somewhere around 70 or so.

AMC moved to throttle cables in 1970 to get rid of the possibility of mount breaking and holding the throttle open as happened with mechanical linkage.

 

[JTDay]

IIRC, we have hydraulic mounts. Check to see if there's any fluid on/around them. You might want to put gloves on and feel up around in there. I had a car that had a motor mount if failed would only have a tiny amount of fluid pooled on top of the rubber on the mount. The movement looks pretty unremarkable to me.

 

[Brahmajoe]

So I loook on top of the mount for fluid

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