[Walt Fricke]

This shouldn't be that much of a problem if you are mating the two basically on the floor of your garage. With the starter off you have a great view of where the clutch fork slides into the groove in the TOB. You can get the two close enough together to rest the fork ends on the outer (closest to the transmission) rim of the TOB, which is a smaller diameter than the inner one. A little push more, and the fork ends should bump into the inner rim and slide of its own accord into the groove.

And you can really see when you have the fork all wrong - bumping into the diaphragm spring, or flopping around the outer end of the TOB.

Usually takes me several tries to do this with the transmission already in the car (which means I can't see what is going on), turning the vertical shaft by hand and trying to feel where things are. So when I've had transmission and engine both out it seems like it has been duck soup.