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Never ends Rob. You must have crapped yourself when you first heard the noise!

Sure did!

On another note, the recent Photobucket changes have caused all the photos in my build thread to disappear! It's going to take a lot of work to upload them all again in some other way.

there will be a lot of people upset about that, what a disaster

Holding photoholders and websites to ransom. Mongrels.

You will need to drop the engine but make sure you break the seal of the locking bolt before any other work. The boys at HQ may be able to help with hoist or engine crane if required.
Yes, photos hope was a dud that had a relapse..

Yes you can as I have done it before. Undo the two east and west engine mounts, Exhaust and intake, then pull out drive shafts. Then place a jack under the gearbox side jack up until your harmonic balancer clear the chassis. You will be tilting the motor on center engine mounts. Just make sore you have something to catch the oil that drains of the drive shaft seal. then put the oil back in the gearbox.

You surely won't need to do that much. The driveshafts have movement in them so they shouldn't need to come out, exhaust also has a fair amount of flex. I would remove the gearbox mount only if required and see where that gets you.

If it cheers you up at all Rob, toyota recommend changing your balancer every 10 years. The revised design from ross works a lot better. We went through the teething issues with it as well.

Ross performance change hands a few years back, if it had **** itself a bit earlier, you might have gotten a discount.

As mentioned, mounts need to be dropped. Cars woth stiff mounts i have found it easiest to removed timing belt side mount, amd depending on exhaust, either remove bolt from rear mount, or loosen rear subframe.

Thanks Nathan!

Yes you may leave drive in if there is enough movement to clear the chassis. If not drive shafts out. On my car it was easy just to undo two bolts to split the exhaust.