Ok Guys, Torque tamer from Moto-build fitted.
Great bit of kit and reasonably easy to fit. The car drives silky smooth and pulls away with no judder/shake as the drive train loads up, best of all on the over-run there is no snatch so when you come on the gas again its smooth. One of the best upgrades to fit! However, the reason is simple when I look at what came off, a 99' mk1 with 70 k on the clock and the bushes were absolutely shot, disintegrated, the metal inserts fell out on unbolting! fitting what CJJ took off his car would have been an upgrade and the spare hanger I got was in better nick and I burned the bushes out of that to rebuild!
On fitting a word of caution, the grease that came with the kit is really good, so good that after pushing in the large bushes into a newly hammerited hanger,they fired straight out!seriously slippy stuff. So to combat this I held them in with a large G clamp, this was a good idea as when you fit to the chassis member its a tight fit (apply that grease again) and the clamp can be used to compress the bush to ease its way in.
The re-fit order I did was 1)separate hanger from sump mount, 2)loose fit sump mount upper bolts on side of sump, 3)fit hanger with big bush to subframe,4) bolt hanger to sump mount, 5) tight bolts on sump mount and draw the assemply tight up against sump, 6)insert final 2 sump mount bolts on underside of sump,7) tighten the whole lot up.
The reason I did it in this order as the gap is too large to bridge with the fully assembled unit, I guess is probably a sign my other mounts are not in great shape
Only downside is that I can now hear a put-putting sound at idle, which could be unrelated or I suspect is a manifold leak deteriorating because the engine is now tightly constrained and allowing minimal flex.
No pictures included as CJJ's excellent guide is enough to cover the views.
TB