[Rwillia4]

with further inspection thru the pivot arm hole I noticed red paint on the front side of the arm, the same color paint that is on the pressure plate. So what is happening is when the pivot arm is pulled it is impacting the pressure plate before the clutch is disengaged. WTF!!! Does this mean shimming between the fork/ t/o bearing. End state is dropping the trans at a minimum and since I don't think I can pull the T-56 out because of its length it really means pulling the whole engine to fix the problem.

Did I miss some step that could have checked for this prior?