I am always amazed at what happens in these forums. So many of you form opinions with only half the info. Why throw Rob under the bus when you probably don't even know him. I looked at these pics and can tell you that the angles they were taken at create an illusion of what really is. You want to compare levers take them off and set them side by side. The throw out bearing is supposed to ride on the hump not on the end of the lever. Obviously Steve used the wrong throw out bearing something any stick guy would check. One lever in the pics looks damaged probably when the retainer broke. If the travel of the throw out bearing and clutch linkage is not set up correctly and you use too small of a bearing it could be possible to over angle the levers and force the bearing off the hump and over the end of the fingers.