Reply to "My clutchingless engagement"

Sounds to me like your throw is not yet into the pressure plate (you're moving t/o bearing only). If it looks like you're getting sufficient throw at the slave (bled well), you may need to experiment with the position of where your lever goes onto the splines of the transaxle to get the best angle (that is, if you removed it when you pulled the drivetrain). The geometry there can be critical. I had similar problems recently when putting a NOS t-axle in and after MUCH tweaking finally got barely enough disengagement. I put the old t-axle back in (for other reasons) and no problems. So changing components can have an effect on what can be a very narrow margin area on many cars to begin with.