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Cover is now off. The inside is covered in sound proofing. This has foam like material stuck to the cover. The outside of this is silver with fibre strands running criscross. This material is stuck to the chassis vertical flange with white chewing gum like substance. What had happened is that the described material had torn along the top of the flange, but was still being held together by the fibre strands. Hence some upward movement but a hard stop when the fibres became taught.
Unfortunately the fault is in the gearbox, so engine out job as the bell housing is too big to come through the cockpit & then a gearbox re-build. This type of failure is not unknown on/in Ford transit gearboxes (same box) can either be the gate or selector forks.
I’ll post the outcome.