hey guys. Hoping you could help out with my issue now. I finished the job last Friday. The brakes and suspension all went back in I was happy with what I had learnt to do. I suspected I may have issues however as the drivers side reassembly was different to the passenger side. I have not driven the car other than to test it since. The drivers side now makes a clunk when going of bumps, to me it sounds like something is moving inside. The way the drivers side differed is that when tightening the upper shaft retaining nut on the drivers side it just spun the mount rather than tightening further. The bearing did come apart on accident and we had to reassemble, as this is the spinning component I suspect we perhaps did it wrong, On the passenger side I was able to torque it correctly. The follow on affect of this is that the top nut in the engine bay is unable to go down any further. There is a small gap between disk and strut tower where you can the nut is sitting too high. Same story, passenger side I torqued correctly no movement in mont, drivers side mount just spun.
I know I have made a mistake somewhere. I can drive my partners car until I get round to fixing it, not in a rush and don't want to causing further damage. At the end of the job I will be taking it for a brake and suspension check at the mechanic, would just like to figure it out on my own. If needs be I will have no issue taking it to a mechanic. I set out on this to learn not to find cheaper route of doing it.
I have seen on another post of JC of someone with exact same signs however it appeared to be a collapsed mount. I replaced mine so I highly highly doubt that is possible. My first port of call will be to replace the bearing, any heads up on where you think I might of gone wrong would be great. I will post photos below. First is good passenger side. Second is wrong drivers side with nut positioning. Gap under disk is too hard to photograph. thanks