Cannot remove motor mounts, Would like some advice Options

[MaskedMan]

I would like some advice on a situation I'm in. Today, I was trying to install front and rear motor mount inserts on my Celica, but I'm having an extremely difficult time removing the mounts. At first, the bolts were just on extremely tight, but I managed to remove all the 14mm bolts on the bottom. My problem is with the front mount's through bolt. I removed the nut at the end of it, but the bolt is stuck on the rubber part and I am unable to pull the bolt out. I have tried hammering the bolt out, but it will just not budge. When I try to turn the bolt, the mount just turns with it, and when the mount cannot turn anymore, the rubber part begins to twist and twist even tighter around the through bolt. I do not want to damage the mount too much, because I just have new inserts, not new motor mounts. I'm at the point of just buying new mounts completely so that I can just be very rough and hack the old ones out even.

If anybody has any ideas on how to remove the bolt without damaging the rubber part of the mount, please let me know. Thank you.

[DEATH]

I wish I could tell you exactly how we did it but Havok and I fcuked around with his for two days before we got it. We ended up taking both of the other two mounts loose and using two jacks - one on the tranny side and one on the engine side to angle the engine/tranny combo different ways to get each part in/out. The car itself was up on 6 jack stands and had rims and tires under the frame rails for insurance - it was dangerous and it was dirty but we finally got it done. The fix? IDK Magic?
Hate to tell you tho, as someone alluded to earlier, getting the mounts out is the "easy" part - getting them back in along with the cross member is even harder - by alot.
Have a fun weekend LOL

This post has been edited by DEATH: Oct 24, 2008 - 2:58 PM