after spending more then 2 hours just to figure out how to channel the wires (should take 10 minutes if you know what you are doing) i moved to the front engine mount.
trying to make my life easy, i removed the two main water hoses that go from the engine block to the front of the car. drained the coolant first (needed to do that anyway for coolant tank replacement). didn't do an engine mount before, but with the hoses removed, it was a piece of cake. also helped me a lot with replacing the fuel filter.
as you can see, the engine mount wasn't totally toasted, but it was starting to fail.