its bloody weird this one

we spent an hour on it today, it wasnt the bolt mounts, we dropped the roll bar to give the cradle more room, the cradle is now bolted up and the mounts for the studs have just about gone through the cradle holes so its sat in place, the trouble is its not quite right as its slightly rotated, the mounts can slide up and down in the cradle i presume so you can move the engine a tad.

can we move it can we feck, i had a lever bar inbetween the front gearbox mount and the front panel lifting to try to physicly rotate the engine a bit
tried pulling on the inlet manifold with all my force but feck all

basicly its prob 15mm out, only came to light when i went to b olt up the gear selector and its no were near the hole on the gearbox lol


tried jacking it up tried brute force etc

wondering if i should put engine on jack and let the engine top mount go and see if that helps, i have left the bottom mounts loose so cant see why they wouldnt slide in the cradle


any ideas?