well it certainly goes faster the second time! thanks for all the comments. I unfortunately dislodged a needle bearing on one of the cups not sure how..... So I ordered another u joint and will start over as I'm pretty sure I bent the bugger when I was pressing it in. Knew something was wrong when it wouldn't seat all the way.

Ah learning on rovers is fun, frustrating and not an inexpensive hobby. I took pictures of the whole process I went through so I might post for other beginners such as myself, up until that last 5 minutes it was easy and took 30 minutes to pop the old ones, clean and seat the new ones.