its not so much your help but any help is good andy! dropping and lifting gearbox not so easy by yourself. I dont have weekends.

OK spigot bush went in and like i suspected it contracted as it went in, just gonna drill it out a bit, is the internal diameter critical?

ok drilled it out with 5/8 drill bit, fits just like it should, all good now Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

thats strange man as ive never had that problem Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

I still don't understand why you girls had problems?? I have made spigot bushes and all you do is run about 0.0015" interference fit and make the hole 0.0035" - 0.004" larger than the shaft. That way when you knock it in (with a tool that has a shaft size the same as the gearbox shaft) the tool comes out and you have 0.002" clearance between the spigot and the gearbox input shaft. Thats exactly how nissan do it too. Anyway, its in now and the extra clearance won't make f-all difference.

information that would have been helpful YESTERDAY, anyways clearance is spot on as it should be Some original photos have not been recovered yet.