I have seen that from National Moparts up here in Canada. I maintain as long as the hole is large enough to go over the end stop it has play. The part did not start out oval. If you ever drove a car with so much play in the clutch linkage you would repair as much as you could. There is only so many places to tighten the linkage. The individuals that installed the headers before I bought it really pushed the clutch linkage around. Before I did this & cut the bump in front of the Z bracket on the clutch fork side the pedal only came up 3/4 the way it should have. It now comes all the way up. I am happy with it.