actually, NVM, I just found the bit I was looking for.
I couldn't find it before on import car parts but was just doing a bing images search to show you what I meant and the part I need came up. i'll be adding this to my shopping list in January :-
http://importcarparts.co.uk/parts_in...ar selector UJ
if you look at eth 2 pictures on their site, the one in the photo is the one I need, the one in the diagram is the latter type which is what I would have got if I changed the whole gear linkage & stick