Thanks for the welcome. I'll certainly help where I can. Turned out that I Pushed the Foot pedal forward While holding the clutch plate over and sprayed some 3 in 1 silicon spray on the shaft. I then push the pedal back and did the same for the other one. I let it sit then to dry and tried it a few hours later and all is well. It feels better than it has done for some quite considerable time. Hoping now that it was a quick and final fix. Any other repairs I do I will do my best to show pics and explain what I've done. Just a backyard mechanic :-)
