Need 4-speed Help

are you saying that after you take your foot off of the clutch pedal,,it engauges ???? it should be engauged when your foot is off the pedal,,,

the only squealing would be from a bad or not properly installed throw out bearing,,,from what i can figure,, was this car orignally a stick car ?? v8 or slant 6 orignaly ??? maybe some more info or some pics of the clutch linkage would make it more visable to try to figure this thing out,,,,

was the trany new ??? old ??? rebuilt ???
For what it,s worth $$ wise.I,d put a new throwout bearing on just to eliminate that.Also,no offence Dartnut,just those s.shields are made to handle exploding clutches was all I was saying.Very hard to bend!