Gearbox mounting bracket position

[eben80]

Evening guys & gals,

I have a broken-off stud on the one side of my 'box which I am trying to get removed/replaced.
One thing I noticed is that there is a lot of mechanical vibration that seems to come through the U-bracket that carries the front of the 'box as it is in contact with the metal of the gearbox itself....
I know this can't be right.
Question is:  What position should this U-bracket be in and how should the rubber mounts be adjusted so that there is no metal-on-metal vibration being transmitted to the body? My torsion plate is in contact with the gearbox... not good. 

[124cso]

As Terry Jones asked in the "spot the brain cell" skit on Monty Python all those years ago. Who wrote "there is no point of contact between the extended and the unextended"?

That U bracket cradles the gearbox but does not touch it. The box is mounted by 2 rubber blocks bolted to the bracket and fixed to the gearbox, probably by that broken off stud/s !

There are times when you just gotta look at da book !