Hi again Gents, no I don't have trouble getting it into any gear really. So long as the vehicle is moving, the changes are slow and precise it changes gear fine when out and about. Especially since I put "Royal Purple" Purpose formulated gear box oil, designed for boxes that take engine oil into it, the changes are ten times better than when I got it. Excellent in fact, though reverse grates a bit sometimes but I expect that of any old box. A lot of manufacturers didn't have synchro's on reverse so that part I know is normal, its the getting it "out of gear" - particularly when on an incline I have trouble with. It is as if the clutch is dragging and trying to spin the input shaft, so therefore if the input shaft is slightly loaded and trying to rotate - but cant, the gear train becomes loaded - but not spinning. I actually pull spanners for a living and I have seen this condition before several times over the years, but it has always been a lack of adjustment thing. Adjust them up so they stroke the fingers on the pressure plate out a bit further, a few minutes later they are good to go again. Not mine though. If a gear train is "weighted" as we say, most boxes don't like to come out of gear whilst the gear train is still partly loaded because it is trying to rotate but cant - so it puts the meshing gear faces under load - and it doesn't take much. Gears do not like to come out of mesh and move along the shaft on the splines whilst rotational load is still applied. This is why I say I think it may be the clutch dragging, especially since audibly I can detect a very slight difference in engine note to that of when idling in neutral, but I cant feel it trying to pull the vehicle or anything which is why it has me stumped. The master cylinder is new and the slave cylinder is unknown but this vehicle has had a complete Army make over a few thousand back so it would have been replaced then, and I have tried over stroking the master cylinder out to the point where I can physically make the clutch slip under acceleration through over adjusting it, but once in reverse, same deal... I can physically stop the engine and the minute the engine stops spinning, it drops out of gear. If I reverse my boat up an incline it will almost certainly not come back out of gear unless the engine is stopped, and the moment I stop it, in and out of gear easily it goes. Anyhow at the end of the day a 25 year old vehicle is going to have some quirks, and that's why we love them - isn't it! Keeps me entertained and alert, and nervous - and at times frightened - gotta love them hey!