hi, I asked how thick he disc was. the reason is, I have a customer with same setup in his dart, had same problem you are having. ok, now, the disc was .340 thick, the mcloeld pressure plate is set for a .305 disc. this causes the finger heights to be too low, and they hit the disc. the cure , i did was to shim the pressure plate from the flywheel with .050 shims, this let the clutch perform perfectly. travel came back, clutch disengaged with out hitting, and it released as it should. mcloed and hays and ram used shims before. ram clutch has shims, thats where I got mine from. when you install too thick of a disc, the shims will get you back to correct setting. I run a clutch 340 duster. I've been though this problem before. I think you need to shim the pressure plate .050 and things will work lot better. byw, my customer bought his disc from brewers, and had a mcloed pressure plate. his disc was .340 thick. all pressure plates usually are set for a certain disc thickness. to thin or too thick affects the clutch operation greatly. in mcloeds catalog, they show what their clutches are set for.
