Managed to get some things done on the golf that have been waiting a while! Massive thanks to my friend Murray for helping me out and letting me put the car up on his lift, made the job so much easier.
The car is going for it's MOT on Wednesday so wanted to give it a good check over and get a few little things done. So, today we fitted the sub-frame spacers with new bolts, the lower gearbox mount insert with new stretch bolt and changed one of my anti roll bar links that had a bit of play in it and was starting to clunk a bit.
The gearbox mount is a powerflex red version which is for the diesel, it has a little more flex in it than the one for the petrol cars so that it doesn't transfer too much vibration to the inside of the car.
A few pictures, anti roll bar link:
lower gearbox mount insert with new stretch bolt:
Subframe spacers and new bolts:
Really pleased to get these little jobs done. The gearbox mount insert has actually made a huge difference, There is hardly any slack in it now so it feels really tight and smooth coming on and off the throttle, there is no noticeable extra vibration inside the car at idle or any other speed and it just feels great, really worthwhile mod.
Chris