It does sound like an MTU issue. Symptoms are typical. Did you try pings end to end with DF bit set and full size datagrams?
> Am able to ssh no problem.
> Most of the clients on the link are using it for browsing.
> However we find that even though they are able to resolve and ping different sites.
> When it comes to opening of the page we have the page reading as opening opening .. but the page never gets opened.
> What exactly do you mean by meaningful traffic? ICMP from port to port works, can you pass TCP? SSH between routers? Establish a TCP session over it?
>> without the df-bit am able to get up to 9000.
>> The switched on bot ends hav been set to allow jumbo frames through and the system MTU size and routing MTU sizes are at 1998.
>> The switch is a 2960 Cisco switch.
>> I have set the mtu on the interface on the end router to 1600 and still unable to push meaningful traffic.
>>> any meanigful traffic asn browsing is impossible.
>> mtu?  try various size pings.