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lphooper03 
First....somehow I broke the clip that goes on the clutch pedal that attached to the master cylinder. (the same part that you adjust the pedal with) I'm guessing one of my friends hopped in there and pushed down the pedal while everything was disconnected. Well I'm not sure whether to buy an entire new master cylinder or just try to fab something up. A new master cylinder costs 47 bucks, but fabbing something up is essentially free, so I dunno if I want to risk it or not. Anyone have any ideas on what I can do?
Rage-Tek has an upgraded unit for this, if you're talking about the clutch pedal pivot. If you had the slave cylinder taken out of the bellhousing and you or your friend pressed in the clutch, the slave cylinder is toast. Even though the FSM says to disconnect the slave cylinder, I just remove it from the bellhousing and tie it off somewhere safe and keep the piston from coming all the way out (by not pressing the clutch in). That way I don't have to bleed the system once everything is put back in. If you broke the little pivot behind the clutch pedal, Rage-Tek, as said above, has an upgraded replacement.
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lphooper03 Next, I seem to have a leak of oil/power steering fluid. When the car sits there more than a couple hours it just starts dripping down ever so often...It's right below the PS lines on the crossmember that you mount the lines to.(on the drivers side, below the housing of all the PS pressure lines). Any reason this would be leaking? I don't think I put any pressure on these lines when i reconnected the tranny. hmmm....
Are you sure this is PS fluid and/or engine oil? Are you sure it's not trans fluid?
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lphooper03 Last, When installing the TOB (yikes...I am embarassed of this) but there are the two little clips that stick out the side of the TOB, on the back. I broke off one of these upon installation of it. It still seemed to mount in there ok and worked fine....is there any inkling that there will be noise or disfunctionality caused by this? That is the only part that I am really worried about because there seemed to be a little bit of play while sitting on the input shaft....but it did slide forward and back no problem.
IMO you should not have installed it like this. Granted, with the pressure that's applied to the fingers of the clutch, there's little movement for it to sway with, it will ride the clutch release fork unevenly. When I pulled my clutch, my TOB also had a clip broken off, and you could see considerable uneven ware on the TOB itself. This *may* reduce the life of the TOB down the road, and you may need to replace it. Chances are you'll be fine for a while, though.
