My new engine

Hello. I am a newbie to motorbikes. I have the 48 cc skyhawk grubbee engine. One, question though. The clutch has me baffled. If you route the cable through the holder on the engine
it attaches to the rear, meaning the lever is pointed towards the back. When I use my fingers to
move the sproket to test this, it moves, then when I move the lever forward to the front of the bike, I feel some pressure, and the sproket stops. This would be the disengage right? If I attach the cable to the rear (clutch lever pointed to the back), There is no tension, nothing, and the return spring does not even return the lever. In other words, the clutch is doing nothing at all.

I dont feel the lever actuating anything, so what will happen when I start the bike?/??? As far as I am concerned, the manual is stupid, no detail, it shows a whole other lever pointed to the back, but no documentation or pics of the lever on the 48 skyhawk. And even so, how do I fix the problem so the clutch lever isnt just loose and doing nothing? I am sure all the kits come this way, and I dont understand why the lever is loose, like that. I need some help to attach it pointed backwards and doing something. If I drop out the lever, it only goes back in one way, flat side toward the pin, then if you can only rotate it and it stops, there is no pushing it in and actuating the clutch. When I take the engine out of the box, what do I need to do here? Cable attached, great, but still loose.

I was tinkering with it. If I push real hard with it pointed backards, it does push it in. I guess the lutch is harder to push in than I realised. It should be ok, I think. I tried the lock, and it works ok.

When moving the sprocket back and fourth with my fingers for the play, it stops it when I pull the clutch on the handle bar. This is when I push real hard on it. This is what I want right?