I dont think anything is wrong with the linkage... it shifts in all gears smoothly when I'm stopped. I did some slow traffic driving today and i noticed the car shudders every once in a while when the clutch is all the way down and i'm in 1st gear. It also engages sometimes from a stop almost like a mild bucking/shuddering but im giving it plenty of gas so its not because its about to stall out. I'm leaning more towards it being a clutch problem now.
Also, just wondering what kind of symptops are caused by a bad slave cylinder ?