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Just tried to set up my new clutch and it seems to have a bit of an attitude!!!
New master and slave cylinders, hose, lever, plunger, bearing, push rod etc,so all the usual problems with wear should of been eliminated, clutch will not disengage however if I remove the return spring it works fine.
I have set the stop to 1.5mm, I tried the central stop nut in all sorts of positions to no avail but surely this only has the effect of saving the crank bearings being overloaded so if backed right off should not stop the clutch disengaging. It would appear that I need more travel but surely other than winding the stop bolt out more and loosing the specified gap there is not much else to try. Anything obvious I seem to be missing?? Cheers Gray.

OK, sorted now, after giving it some thought I decided to ignor the prescribed gap for the arm stop bolt and wound it the bolt a tad more and all was fine.

have you checked your front crankshaft pulley for any excessive crankshaft movement when the clutch is pressed it is the only other way to loose clutch adjustment if every thing else is renewed and having to adjust your clutch arm fully suggests this .

No worries there, the whole engine has just been rebuilt by Bryan Slark and is 90% nos.