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Will try draining it more frequently, but 2 cold starts have been perfect so far. Looking good! Next I have to replace the lower engine mount that's all of 30k miles old - this time with a genuine one I think. It's not oil saturation, but just seems to have disintegrated.

Has the rubber bit torn from the metal? I made one from some metal bar and some round rubber bar(?)
with a 6mm hole down the middle, that I nicked from indespension in Bolton.
Stuck them together with Gorilla glue and it was on the car when I sold it 4 years later.

Missed this one Phil, it's the rubber bit with the metal tube in the centre, that's separated from the outer rubber part as it's only held in 1 direction. Incidentally, which way should the bush be orientated? I gave the whole mount to a garage at the time to press out and in as I didn't have a vice, and I can't remember if they put it back in in the same orientation.

vibration, one way round it tranfers all the vibration into the subframe/bulkhead/cabin the other way damps the vibration. Its important but not critical.

If it's the one in the o/s drive shaft intermediate bearing housing then it's fitted with the gaps in line with the lower link. Roughly the gaps will be at 3 and 9 o'clock.