just an update guys,finally decided to get the old man over to give me a 2nd pair of eyes and hands,and it seems the gearbox it fubarred

did the clutch again and as i thought i had originally put it in correctly,bolted up and driveshafts pushed home to find absolutely no drive coming from the main driveshaft,whilst the drivers/side goes round but if you place pressure on it can easily stop...

so its going to take a longer then i thought to get it on the road