[Michael C Henry]

You will have to keep up with the adjustments as your clutch wears. The more you slip the clutch the more wear more adjustment. You are lucky that you havent taken out the throw out bearing . The throw out bearing is intended for only momentary use. If it continues to spin under tension. The bearing will heat up ,spin out its grease ,and then lock up taking out the forks in the pressure plate. You need a little free travel for throw out bearing release. As you look at the linkage there should be a spring that pulls the throw out bearings' fork forward. You can check the free play by pulling the fork arm rearward through the springs pressure untill the trow out bearing contacts the pressureplate fingers with your bare hand. you need about 3/16 or so movement. You will only have so much travel potential in your clutch linkage, so the more free travel the less to actually release the clutch. If you cant get complete clutch release gears wiil grind or resist shifting. I have a tilton hydraulic clutch system . with slave cylinder ,throw out fork arm and so on. I had a 7/8" ID master cylinder and had just enough volume to have just a very small amount of free travel and just barely clutch relase. I didn't keep up with the adjustments and ended up ruining my pressureplate. I ended up changing out the master cylinder to a larger 15/16" ID diameter master cylinder. I gained more slave cyilnder travel and have lots of free travel and complete clutch release. It takes a little more foot pressure now.