Clutch Z bar installation question

[AcampoDave]

My pivot ball broke off in the block so it was easy to pull the Z bar out of there. The busted thread shank came right out of the hole in the block with only my fingers too. I had another ball in my junk bin and it is a matches the dimensions of the old one. But I can't get the Z bar back in again. I tried with the ball in the z bar first, and then the ball in the block first but unless I'm missing a trick here, it looks like I need to raise the motor on that side to angle it all in there. Do you really have to do that? Seems like Chevy would have thought of a better way than that.