Ok, I am at Step 4 of my evil plan. You can see the photos here...

Flickr Photo Set - Clutch Work 01

I'm not going to embed them all here just yet till I get better organized.

The small jack stands aren't at their full height but I'm not sure I trust them up that high. So I cant move the transmission out from under the car. I can only back it out about a foot. But it looks like enough to work on the clutch.

Removed the clutch cover and disc. Clutch cover fingers look blued from heat, not sure if that's normal but also about 4-5 of them look bent inwards. Now that could be from the great job I did removing the transmission, had to push it back together due to shifter hinge pin (not mentioned in service manual). Last pic in the set worries me a bit as the bolts don't line up with the holes in the flywheel plate thingy?

Anyone see anything else out of the ordinary I should worry about? Anyway I can test the release bearing/slave cylinder somehow to tell if it's ok?
Honestly if you guys told me all the parts were worn out or looked brand new I wouldn't know the difference.

This is as far as I can go without special part 9102 to remove flywheel.

Thanks