clutch issues, Help! Options

[JamesM]

I am having issues narrowing down the source of some clutch issues and am hoping someone more knowledgeable then myself might be able to help. I can not seem to get it adjusted properly, it is either to loose and i can not fully disengage the clutch, or to tight and slips under power. In both cases clutch pedal feel is wrong as well.

Here is where i am at so far...
I recently installed a new clutch and swapped the tranny for one in much better shape that i had laying around. Clutch cable is a new terry cable and does not feel to be binding at all. I first suspected the clutch cable tube so I have triple checked that and all appears to be solid. I pulled the tranny again and checked the shims under the pivot ball. Where it sits right now with 2 shims I can just barely slide my finger between the clutch fork and the case, so i figure about a half inch of free movement there. If i add a third shim I have no free movement of the clutch fork when the tranny so i left it at two.

With everything hooked up it seems almost as if i am not getting enough movement of the clutch cable at the tranny end, ill check the total motion tonight to be sure. Could this possibly be some issue with the pedal assembly or do i need to add that third shim to the pivot ball?

This problem seems to have developed over time, i would slightly tighten the clutch cable to keep the gears from grinding and it go to the state it is now where it is either slipping for grinding. It ultimately got much worse on my way to the last autox, Went to change gears on the way there and it felt like something in the clutch linkage just popped or slipped and i had to go much further down on the pedal before it even begun to release. I checked everything again after that and it all seemed to be the same.

Any ideas?



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