Lost 3/4 of clutch peddle

mullinax95 said

You probably not a thing wrong... it's a royal ***** to get the thing in there and properly seated. If you have a aftermarket scattershield it is even worse than that. When I had the motor and transmission out and was putting everything together I zip tied the clutch fork back so that sucker would not slip off until I had the rods on installed to keep pressure on it ... then cut the zip tie.

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You said to tie the fork back with a zip tie. I can't see how this would help my particular situation because it just wont go in far enough to seat on the tabs. If there was a way to get the bearing to move forward a half inch or so then it would go in. In other words I can slip the clutch fork in easily if I angle it toward the motor and honestly it slides in with ease but when I angle it back to catch the ears it is about 3/8" too short from seating. It seems to be that flat pivot spring is binding up and holding the whole thing back. I then tried tapping it with a hammer then the damn bearing turns just enough that only one ear seats and the other is completely out of place. Is this a two person process to somehow hold the bearing while another person wiggles it in place? It's real fustrating because it really is a simple linkage set up and while being under the car 500 times trying to make this work I fully understand the whole concept of it all. If I had the flat pivot spring removed then it would do exactly what I wanted (seating) but I'm pretty sure it needs that to make a pivot point. There must be some sort of trick that I am overlooking.