This may sound hokey, but can you get the car rolling, then push on the shifter? (This assumes that you've got your driveshaft hooked up.) A transmission's inner parts like to move--if you do this right, no manual transmission needs a clutch for anything other than getting going. If you get rolling, you don't need the clutch to get into gear--first gear won't require much speed at all. Every gear has a road speed where it will just slip into gear (and out) with little (some) resistance (and no clutch disengagement). You also will not need much force at all; this is not a suggestion to apply violence . . .
TKOs and T5zs can be very sticky when new. Industrial boxes can be so much worse . . .
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