Why is it called a motor mount?

[chryslerfat]

This thread runs on gas and stripper glitter.

 

[Phily]

I thought it was being ran by methane gas for a bit.

 

[Bodyperson]

Motor is easier to say while crying.

 

[Bodyperson]

Wow people are really bored to have time to argue over this.

Is it a car or a vehicle?

After you read 25 posts?

 

[chryslerfat]

After you read 25 posts?

Before that. LOL

 

[Bodyperson]

You people have too much free time. I don't care what the accepted terminology is, to me its a motor! Mostly because I like the sound of the word but also because it pisses some folks

Just got home from work and..... I still like brunettes, beer, and pushrod V8's.

With carburetors.

 

[harrisonm]

i think the real question is...why are you posting this in the general area of the forum and not in the thread devoted to these sorts of questions?

You got me there. I meant it more as a LOL than anything. Maybe I should have posted it in Jokes and Anything Goes. Someday I'll get the hang of using this website. Good thing I have you to keep me honest, DIY.

 

[harrisonm]

Mount engine
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My wife just asked me why I all the sudden burst out laughing.

 

[pishta]

I'd call them insulators. Mopar calling them "engine mounts" in their FSM's. In Industry, "Motor controls" are generally electric switches, relays and contactors.

 

[Back in Time]

And all these years I thought I had a "mill" in my car

 

[SSVDP]

People have been incorrectly using terms for generations.
Often a meaning evolves or changes. As a kid I in the summer I would wear thongs on my feet; now thong is worn on a different part of the body. And car guys used to talk about carbs and trannies...

 

[retroron]

Great thread! Nublu, you had me at several years of thermo--- I barely made it out of the second quarter! And I agree with your comments, I was taught by the high school teacher, the USAF, and college that motors are electric and engines are internal combustion, etc. No reason for anyone to get hostle or demean the other.

 

[fl 71]

Great thread! Nublu, you had me at several years of thermo--- I barely made it out of the second quarter! And I agree with your comments, I was taught by the high school teacher, the USAF, and college that motors are electric and engines are internal combustion, etc. No reason for anyone to get hostle or demean the other.

Agree washing machines have motors, cars have engines.

 

[SGBARRACUDA]

People have been incorrectly using terms for generations.
Often a meaning evolves or changes. As a kid I in the summer I would wear thongs on my feet; now thong is worn on a different part of the body. And car guys used to talk about carbs and trannies...

I can remember anti smoking posters in the hall of my junior high school that depicted a stick boy smoking a cigarette and it said " Don't be like all the rest, don't smoke ****!" Well that meaning has certainly changed.

 

[ir3333]

my buddy hurt his leg and the Doctor said it was going to affect his motor ability.
...now what?

 

[Pascamp]

Just got home from work again. It's Tuesday now. I still like brunettes, beer, and pushrod V8's.

 

[SGBARRACUDA]

Just got home from work again. It's Tuesday now. I still like brunettes, beer, and pushrod V8's.

And I still agree!

 

[Deucemopar]

Interesting contemplation ... though I am much more concerned on why the expression is "to take a crap" ... when ... after all ... you are really leaving it.

Then again .... one can really not give a crap as well. I guess that would be constipation.

 

[RogerRamRod]

So when I'm gonna leave someplace, I now gotta say
I'm gonna engine, I'll see you later.?
At least until we are all driving electric cars.

I wonder what Lemmys thoughts would have been on this.

 

[fratzog lover]

Drive it until it sounds like the Ace of Spades.

 

[Ddaddy]

It's an engine. Ma Mopar sez so...end of discussion.

 

[diymirage]

It's an engine. Ma Mopar sez so...end of discussion.
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Sorry, MA who?

 

[yellow rose]

MA fiat.

 

[Xtraoldestocke]

So why aren't electrical engineers called electrical motoreers.

 

[Daves69]

So why "motor"?
Because.
Now the important stuff........
Why are they called hamburgers if they are made from beef?