Well, it has been about 6 weeks and the oil DID improve the shift somewhat. The tranny can now be said to snick rather than crash, and that is an improvement. I am learning to shift slowly (which is unsatisfactory) and can feel the stress whenever I can hear it. About half the time there is no negative indication. That is an improvement.

I bought from Goodwin the cylinder replacement kit and installed them yesterday. One thing that was a nuisance was that I could not separate the flex line from the top of the lower hard line. I could not even remove the spring clip that holds that junction to the chassis. So at this moment both the original flex line and the lower hard line are still on the car, the hydraulics by pass them with the stainless flex line that came with the kit.

The sorry news is that I discern no improvement.

I really don't want to wrestle with adjusting the clutch pedal. Does anyone have any actual experience in making that adjustment that they would like to share?

Meanwhile I'll be saving for a transmission rebuild. Drat.