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Yeah, thanks although I'm not sure its any different. The only thing I think may be different is the power steering pipe loop that was there. I am not sure if XR6T have them or not. Other than that it was a straight conversion I did years ago from a wrecked XR6T, so its essentially a XR6T. Thinking about it now, it would be the exact same problem in a NA, with minimal clearance on that side to move the mount around to get it out. If I had my engine crane assembled I probably would have attached it to the turbo side and lifted the engine that way to get the clearance needed.

I couldn't find an exact match for this when I searched, so if I have missed something, please let me know. I won't be surprised if there is an exact thread on changing the mounts.. I was trying to change the engine mounts on my FG XT turbo (not a typo, its an XT!) and I was stumped on how to do it. There wasn't enough height or clearance. I couldn't get the turbo side mount out. The passenger/inlet side is easy. There just was not enough clearance to pull out the turbo side mount. I removed all the intake plumbing, and the hot side plumbing. I undid the nuts holding the engine mounts onto the crossmember, jacked up the engine with a bit of timber under the sump, but it was still too hard to remove the turbo side mount. What I ended up doing was to remove the passenger side mount, and then jacked up the engine under the sump again, but trying to push up the sump from the turbo side to get a little bit more clearance. There is a looped pipe connection here from the powersteering (at least in mine) and you have to undo the bolt holding it to the cross member to move it out of the way. Once that is out of the way, and you push the engine across a bit to the passenger side, you can get the mount to drop in. I used a lever to try and tilt the engine up a bit, and a second person to help would have made it easier. Once the turbo side mount is in, the passenger mount is a piece of cake and can go in no problem. In the end, replacing the FG engine mounts wasn't too difficult, but knowing how to approach it makes it easier.

That's interesting. Are there any examples on this forum about failed PWR heat exchangers? I wasn't aware there were any failures. ZF Milkshakes seem to be 'a thing' with FGs, so why would this be the case? Failures that seemed to have popped up relatively early in their life, and with people using coolant. I can't say I have seen the inside of a PWR cooler and compared them to the OEM one. At the very least I had thought that they were thicker and less likely to be affected by corrossion. Any pictures of the differences would be interesting to see, but for me its insurance and I guess I have to trust that the PWR ones are less likely to fail. By contrast I thought there have been people that replaced the OEM cooler with a new OEM cooler and still had their gearbox milkshake.

I think you are ignoring the fact that people have had the OEM heat exchangers fail even when relatively new, yet no one seems to have had failures of the PWR replacement. Have you read up on this at all or just assuming that OEM is better?