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OP, post any codes you get from your scanner.
Not sure if the "not so smooth" engagement is from the replacement clutch or referred to the old one.

If you are getting "reduce clutch use," see this thread and check your reluctor:
https://www.camaro6.com/forums/showt...php?p=11115174

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Originally Posted by Camrochris

The OP was not ABOUT to tear a trans apart for a "clutch overuse warning". I took it to a respected transmission specialist. Even when I dropped it off it took 50 minutes for the light to come on. (In January). I replaced everything a normal person would have replaxed. Which is EVERYTHING having to do with the clutch. Press plate, friction disc, flywheel and release bearing. The clutch was "burned up"....there was no indication of any other damage, and when I bought it....how much could have possibly been wrong with a car that had 3500 miles.To the O/P who said I didnt do this or that. BULL****. Any reasonable person would have done what I did!!! Not "gee, why dont you tear it all apart! Because that makes sense. I am thinking about replacing the entire rebuilt trans. If I was made of $$$ I would have bought a 2SS.

You would be amazed what a person learning to drive manual on a new car can do to the drivetrain in 3,500 or less. I have seen cars with less mileage that won't even go into gear after warming up because the previous owner who bought it new, destroyed it trying to learn to drive it, gave up, and went back to the dealer to swap it out for an unmolested automatic. Guess who gets stuck with that "like new" low mileage, and very attractively priced manual dealer special...
I only buy brand new zero miles manual cars for this very reason.