Sorry to hear about the gearbox trouble Neil, is it a Renault Trafic by the way.
Transit.
It took me a while to work out why there should be a hole in the gearbox, it wasn't there when I did the initial inspection of why there wasn't any drive. Then I remembered that when we nearly got to the garage there was an almighty bang, which sounded a bit more than the rigid tow bar knocking. Clearly the initial problem was something on the inside of the Gb shearing off/working lose. This must have sat in the Gb getting knocked around on the way back until such time as it must have lodged in one of the gears, and then got spat out at an almighty rate of knots.......through the Gb casing.
On the plus side the garage doing it is one of our customers which we do along with 3 others in the chain and the owners house too, so on the grand scale of things we take money off them and they take money off us....All things being equal and all that.
Another positive is that it's given me time to catch up on the leather refurbishments that have been sat around here waiting for a few hours attention. The sort of jobs that the customer says do them when you can!