I want to amend this whole thing with one point.

The setup worked flawlessly except in my case my fork bracket and fork bracket mount turned out to be too worn. I was about to buy new ones when I said W.T.eff, I'm going to go for the whole enchilada and try a hydraulic throw out bearing from Tilton (through Summit). The bearing arrived in two days. The bearing to transmission mount is back ordered until mid Feb.

So, for that part of the overall project, I'm on hold for a month.