its in and hooked up with no tool just fingers and alot of ####ing hell but its in and should be going in the next few days

Giving your age away Don,this is called a skill and was taught by real tradesman long ago.My best mate also taught me this skill.

After nearly 20 years in the trade, the only time I have had to use a clutch aligning tool is on diesel dual mass flywheels. The trick that I use is feeling behind the pressure plate and clutch disc. You can feel the difference as the friction plate is margionally smaller than the pressure plate surface area. Touch and feel. A bit like sex! I have never yet had a clutch that I cant alligh with my fingers and I have done hundreds of them of all sorts.

Is this the little A10 that used to "boogie" quite a bit Sidedraught?

Be interested to hear how it goes if it is the one I'm thinking of.

its a 1000 box going on to a 1000 motor i got from sidedraught i think i did lign it all up right fist but will see when my bro comes to have anther go

The best way to line up a clutch plate is by using an old input shaft from a trash gearbox, other than that, try Repco [or other] & get yourself a clutch alignment tool.

Either of these will allow you to correctly center the clutch disk & allow gearbox insertion. Sidedraught is dead right about the 1000 gearbox thing. The spigot on these is considerably longer & the A10 crank was drilled deeper to accomodate it, so when using the early box behind a newer engine, you need to remove about 1/2" to 5/8" & this can be done with a right angle grinder if you are very carefull.
Don't forger to put a chamfer on the pointy end of the shaft before re-installing.

its a 1000 box trying to do it myself cant get any help yet but i seem to have put the clutch round the wrong way bit fixed now just have to try again to slide the box back on

If its a 1000 gearbox going onto a 1200 motor it will need about 15 cut off the shaft.

there will be some twisting and turning and swearing, but then, when your about to say FU#K IT, it will just pop on.

yeah i did take it off the fly wheel ill take it of again and try to line up and then see wot happens