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Thanks Gary, that puts us quite a way ahead of where we were. Can you show us where you put the shims specifically? Here is a clutch shaft:



I see the central thrust bearing and a drive plate each side of it. Are you saying that you use one GT07303 and two GT00539 shims, totalling 0.030" thick, between each side of the thrust bearing and each drive plate, - so altogether you use six shims on each clutch shaft you overhaul?



In that illustration from the manual, Item 27 is shown as GT07303, and Item 30 as GT00539. That is, if the diagram is actually correct, the standard set-up is assymetrical: it has one more shim on the non-sprocket side than it has on the sprocket side. Can you tell us why the thicker shim stack on the non-sprocket side? Or is the illustration just approximate and you are supposed to just use whatever shims you need?

Because the forward clutch usually wears more than the reverse clutch, I'd have expected most rebuild jobs to use more shims on the forward clutch side than the reverse clutch side, unless you replace the clutch linings at the same time.