Reply to "Throw out bearing touching clutch"

Not sure what you mean by the clutch being "in"? When the clutch pedal is not being pushed the throwout may or may not touch the clutch fingers depending on how its adjusted. And with some clutches, one of the fingers may be slightly 'high' relative to the others so it touches sooner. Such clutches are hard to adjust properly.

Later model throwout bearings are constant-contact types in which the throwout bearing face is designed to ALWAYS touch the clutch fingers. This yields longer bearing life and less clutch finger wear since the bearing is always in contact and spinning, not sitting idle, then instantly being accelerated to whatever rpm the flywheel is at whenever we jab the clutch pedal.