Well what a weekend I've had with the Kuga!.
Starter motor looked a good fit and mesh on the ring-gear but didn't work correctly, luckily I found out Friday morning and got a second hand one delivered on Saturday (ironically it was from the same car as the flywheel!).
Next up I had to modify the starter to fit, did that after work in Sat and fit to gearbox.
Got the car running on Sunday, had ABS/ Torque sensor faults, the 2017 uses a different CAN instruction set it seems..
Spent 2 hours trying to reflash with Ford IDS before biting the bullet. Front of car off on Sunday afternoon and my old Mechatronic unit fitted (really didn't want to use any of the old box but hey ho..).
It started raining Sunday night so rushed into fitting the Mecatronic. It has a rotary encoder that reads gear selector postion and I could have sworn it is indexed in Park position...
Got up and out at 6am to put front end back together (can do that with my eyes shut now!).
Took kids to school and hopped into the Kuga, Gear Selector in Park/ dashboard says drive (bxllxcks!).
Drain gearbox down AGAIN, managed to get the sump off the front and down enough to access the position sensor and eventually got it correct (after the penny droped about being set up in Drive..).
Our 1 year old Labrador wandered off down the street when I left the gate open so decided when it was back together I'll wait for my wife to come home from work before doing anything else.
Anyway, drove it off the drive (lumpy clutch engagement!), turned it around and then set about a Clutch and Gear learn with FORScan. All went OK and just taken it around the block for a quick drive.
Smooth as silk!. Don't know whether to laugh or cry. Been a long hard fight.