[14erclimber]

I've got this all put back together now, with a push-rod fabricated out of a bolt. It all works great. But I still have one minor question maybe someone could help me out with, having to do with the throwout bearing. My understanding is that there should be clearance between the throwout bearing and the clutch pressure plate, so that the bearing doesn't have to spin when I'm not mashing the clutch pedal. But the spring in the slave cylinder would seem to push hard enough on the bearing fork that it would engage the bearing with the pressure plate, causing the bearing to have to spin all the time. I don't see that there's anything to hold it back from doing this. There must be something I overlooked, or worse still, something I left out. So what prevents the slave cylinder from pushing hard enough on the fork to keep the bearing from spinning all the time? The friction point on the clutch pedal is about 1.5 to 2 inches down, so it acts normal, but is that just a function of how the self-adjusting slave cylinder works?