[Ron61]

If you have the clutch all the way in and the clutch is fully released, you should not have the wheels turning a soon as you start to put it into gear. Do you feel any roughness in the gear shift? I ran a heavy duty racing clutch for 11 years and I never had any of the noises they describe above. It was not as smooth and easy as the one on my daily driver, but no grinding, roughness, or other weird things. Also the clutch on my 69 Cobra is a very heavy duty racing one and it is not noisy, or at least I can't hear it. I did had a throw out bearing get bad in it once, but that not only caused noise but I could feel it in the clutch pedal.

Ron