Yeah, in my case I think I'm losing quite a bit of clutch fork travel with all that free play. I do not feel any tightness until I'm nearly hitting the floor, and at this point there is no gap between the throw out bearing and pressure plate. I don't plan on leaving it that way.
Anyway... I wanted to point out all the slop and "free play" of the linkages to the OP just in case he hadn't noticed that. There seems to be quite a bit of travel lost there, at least in my case.
I plan to pull my z-Bar out either this weekend or the next and cut the down leg off again to re-position it.
When I do that I'm going to try to take all that slop out of the system by keeping it tight before re-positioning the down leg and welding it back on again.