Need technical assistance

[ChevyKev]

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1990 Chevy Blazer - full size rig
5.7 TBI
4 speed manual trans / 241 t-case

Got a clutch installed but it didn't work - ended up bending my clutch hydraulic push rod trying to get it to work.

Removed it and found that it had been installed backwards. ( though I helped, I wasn't the one who installed it.)

Installed it properly and ... it still doesn't work. It is as if the clutch never engages. As if the pressure plate doesn't release at all.

The fork is lined up, the throw out bearing lined up.
Clutch line bled (with vacuum bleeder.)
As soon as the foot touches the pedal, the push rod moves.

However, there doesn't seem to be much resistance in the pedal until 1/2 way to the floor. The fork moves and pushed the throw-out bearing into the fingers ... so it appears to be working properly, yet no disengagement form the clutch.

I am litterally banging my head against a fender (and leaf spring, and diff, and ...) trying to figure out why this doesn't work. I am beyond frustrated, and behind on other projects because I can't get this out of my garage, and due to my other plow truck being down, I HAVE to get this going.

The only thing I can figure is I have the wrong clutch/pressure plate (which is very possible, I got it from NAPA on Gaffney and get the wrong parts there more often than I get the right parts there. That's why I normally get things from the NP store where they tend to get me the right parts...)

Anyone with knowledge around that could help me trouble shoot this?

Any ideas?