4KCSQ Hard Shifting

[todd holyoak <tholyoak@argon.helios.nd.edu>]

I've owned an '87 4KCSQ for about a month now and was wondering if the 
shifting behaviour I'm experiencing is normal.  When the car is cold it 
is rather difficult to shift.  What I mean is it is physically hard to 
put into gear.  When the transmission warms up it shifts very nicely.  As 
well I noticed again when the car is cold that the clutch does not seem 
to disengage immediately in conjunction with depressing the clutch pedal, 
there is about a one second delay between the two operations.  I 
can see these two things being related.  Any ideas on this, a 
sticky release bearing, air in the system.?  Any comments 
would be appreciated.

TIA
Todd
'84 944
'87 4KCSQ