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Well, it turns out i am a freakin idiot and i need to do some apologizing to McLeod.

since i know everything :) after reading the instructions i took a different means of gathering all the measurements to install the hyd TO bearings and as a result of my measurments neither of the McLeod TO bearing would work, they were simply to thick.

Well i received my cheapy hyd throwout bearing of ebay and low and behold it was too thick also. Thats when i realized that maybe..just maybe i may be to blame.

Originally i measured from the bell housing mating surface on the motor to the face of the flywheel...then laid my pressure plate face down on the ground and measured from the ground up to the fingers and added that to the motor to flywheel total. then i took the bellhousing with the bearing retainer centered...slid the TO bearing on..laid a straight edge across the bellhousing and measured down from it...only to find out that the throw out bearing was sticking up too high on all occasions. so i started to back track and figured out that you cant take the measurement of the pressure plate when it is off of the flywheel because the fingers move (quite a bit) when bolted down to the flywheel. So i basically followed the instructions and what do you know...

2 of the 3 hyd bearings do fit and i am an idiot and a little bit embarrassed that i lashed out so prematurely at McLeod...In my defense however..only 1 of the 2 McLeod throw out bearing would work :) (the 678.00 one will work and will the 'cheapy" one i got on ebay. The universal McLeod will work if you turn the bearing retainer down about 3/16th of an inch)


Anyhow..my apologizes to McLeod

PS..Bernie (from McLeod)..you dont have to return my call :)