I'm kind of slow so bear with me. I'm not sure after reading your post what exactly you did. I'm fixing to change my mounts out (which seems stupid since I still can't really use it), and I just want to understand exactly what you did in case I have the same difficulty.

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John