Thanks for the info. I sent an email to Magura asking for help and immediately got a response from them (which gives me a little hope). It looks like the problem is free play at the slave cylinder ... after just forking over 200 bones - I not quite ready to give up (but I'm close) - I'm going to give it another try - if it doesn't work - I'll go the same route ... cable with no parking brake. The problem I'm having is if I re-position the clutch lever arm so that there is no free play - I can't get it back into the cable end bracket (without bending the rod) - when I position it to where I can get the slave cylinder in the bracket - it ends up having too much play. If it doesn't go - I hope the place I purchased it from will take it back.