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Thankyou for your reply. No, not the pedal linkage, the actual disconnect pressure plate finger to throwout bearing free play as detected at the clutch shaft by rotating the clutch fork shaft (part number AT60373) by hand. If I separate the housings by roughly a sixteenth of an inch then there is noticeable bearing to finger free play when rotating the shaft. If I cinch up the housings tight, it becomes hard to detect much, if any, free play remaining. As you say, the clutch itself isn't actually used much during normal service so perhaps this free play is normal for this machine but I wanted to ask because it's not how I'm used to seeing clutches go together on machines without the reverser and I don't see a spec in the service manual. The clutch disk is new and the pressure plate was overhauled. The shop which overhauled the pressure plate also turned the flywheel and set up the flywheel/clutch assembly (which should include adjusting the fingers) while they had it, or at least they were supposed to. The forward clutch pack is essentially new from one end to the other, including the sealing rings you ask about. The sleeve which those sealing rings seal against should probably also have been replaced but it would have been necessary to split the clutch housing from the transmission housing to get it out with the puller I had so I did not do that. I'm hoping to get away with stopping the overhaul where I did; gotta stop somewhere... :-) But the clutch free play worries me.
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