[wrogers55]

To answer your question about constant contact, the internal spring in the slave pushes the clutch fork arm forward until it it stopped by the bearing touching the fingers of the pressure plate. You can feel no free play in the arm at that point. And, you can see it in all its glory through the window hole where the clutch fork arm comes out.

It's still a matter of "to touch or not to touch". I guess that goes for lots of things actually.