Reply to "Slave Adjustment"

Well I am not sure if I am done with this or not. I saw the other post about the spring and actuating rod, and now I am wondering if I have my actuating rod adjusted correctly. This is what I experience: When I had the bleed screw open, I could push in the slave cylendar acuating rod by a little over 1/4" by pushing in on the cluthch arm, so to me, it seems I have a little too much play but I didn't mess with it. However, when I closed the bleed screw and drove the car around everything at the clutch arm is now real tight (I can't push it back in like before and the return spring won't pull it back further either like when the bleed screw was open). This makes me wonder if when adjusting the acuating rod, if this adjustment should be made when there is no presure in the system such as with the bleed screw open. Only then I can really feel the free play by pushing on the arm.

Only reason why it may have worked great yesterday is because it tightend itself on the small adjusting screw when I drove it because I didn't have that small screw tightened on the arm with the nut.