While trying to find the source of an oil leak after replacing my timing belt, I had it up on ramps and was cleaning off the underside of the engine and chassis to remove oil so I could identify the leak. I had sprayed it down with brake cleaner, then Simple Green, to remove oil. I used a garden hose to rinse it - not a pressure washer.

After taking it down off of the ramps, I found this rubber piece lying on the ground under what was the passenger side. It appears to me to be from either the suspension or a motor mount, but looking down, and up from below, I don't see a matching piece on the other side, or a place where I think it should go.

Does anyone know what this is? I wonder how it could have fallen out, when I didn't knowingly remove anything that would have held it. Except possibly the a/c compressor mounting bracket during the timing belt job. But this doesn't seem like it would go with that.

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Muffler bearing support bushing.

Aha - thanks. Strange that I didn't hear any rattles during a test drive yesterday.

Before I try to figure out exactly where it goes, can you point me in the right direction, or will it be obvious, when I look along the exhaust?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWdqlpxRA4I

Here is a link that hopefully will help you...

For real man? That is the rubber grip thing off the bottom of one of your ramps.

Holy crap. Am I the Village Idiot, or what?

In my defense, my vehicle is back up on the ramps, so I can't look underneath them. And when I found the piece it was while both ramps were still flat on the floor. And both of my Rhino Ramps are dead flat on the concrete floor, with no space that would indicate they have rubber pads under them.

Also, I have dealt with muffler hangers on other vehicles that did have rubber things in them.

Oh sorry dude i was just messing with you.

It's all good. After all your other headaches at least this one is easy! Wish I could help with the oil leak/burn. If you could make it to Charlotte, we could figure it out.

Wish I could make that 4 hour trip. Yeah - my tired, old brain isn't thinking real clear now, because of this freaking oil leak that is about to put me on meds.

Confirmed that it was a part from the bottom of my Rhino Ramp.

With all of the other weird stuff going on with my T4R, I figured it was just more gas being poured on the fire. When I took the front of my engine apart twice over the last 2 weeks, other old bolts, screws and washers that had been dropped and lost in there over the years appeared on my floor. I thought that rubber piece was another one of those things.