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Well I quickly realised I was missing the 'special' bolts, a quick Google showed me I needed some bolts without heads and a nylock nut for each one so I piped to the local hardware store and bought some bolts then I preceded to lop the heads off with a dremel I quickly realised that I would need to cut a slot in each one to get a flat blade screwdriver in so I could tighten them in which I did.So after 10 minutes of faffing getting them all the right length I thread locked them all in place and installed the new housing I think I did a pretty good job to say I'm no machinist and I'm certainly no engineer (even if I like to think I am) so now I have a new issue, in order to try and same myself some money I did not order the ally engine mount for the other side as I thought the plastic one would do the job, I was wrong. The plastic mount is slightly (maybe 1/2 an inch?) Taller than the new one so I have no idea what to do? Can I shave the excess plastic off or will that damage the integrity of the mount, should I space the new mount up a bit with somthing? But them I feel like I'm inviting more problems. I know in my heart the answer is to buy the other engine mount and suck up the pain it leaves in my wallet, I was just hoping to get it on the road again today