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Not that it helps much, but remember that VW designed the motor/ trans to counter balance each other. the mounts under the transaxle are designed to hold the weight, the single mount on the "nose cone" of the transmission is designed to only hold the engine/ transaxle from flopping forward/ backwards (under acceleration/ engine braking is how they are typically broken).
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Maybe I don't understand how the mounts are setup, but doesn't that front mount also need to resist the driving load (torque) which the engine/transmission exerts on the wheels? It's been years since I drove a bug.
(Did you know in the old days the hole in the air shield over the cooling blower was SMALLER than the diameter of the blower wheel, so when the generator spit out a commutator segment (the blower wheel is on the inside end of the generator shaft), you had to unbolt the air shield and pull it out with the generator?
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