Rocky, the OEM DeTomaso clutch lever arms had the entire loop cut off each of the 3 levers. That clutch still has the loops where bob-weights are bolted on. Things expand quite a bit when the bellhousing, clutch and ZF get 'warm'. You could make things a little safer in there by using a grinder to the exposed loops, without noticably changing the clutches' balance.
Another not-so-good thing the innovative among us sometimes did was to substitute hex-bolts for the two metric allens used inside the dash-2 bellhousing to bolt up the ZF. That also can cause metal-to-metal contact.
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