[blykins]

I'm in Louisville right now visiting my girlfriend, or believe me...I'd be out trying this stuff right now. One thing I did think of this morning was the fact that I had test fit the clutch disc on the tranny while the tranny was on the workbench. I'm 100% sure I pushed the clutch disc on as far as it would go....I left it on there a couple of days while it was too cold to work in the garage...and every once in a while I would go give it a turn or two...If the clutch disc was all the way up on the input shaft, and I turned it...then the input bearing retainer would have made the marks that I was seeing earlier. That could explain that....

Like I posted earlier, the first thing I'll do is bolt the flywheel on...and mate the tranny up to see if the pilot goes easily into the pilot bearing...if so...then I'll put the clutch disc on the flywheel (I guess I'll have to secure it somehow) and bolt the bellhousing on...then mate the tranny up. That way I can look through the clutch fork hole and see what the clearances are. If it is in fact hitting it, I'll decide what to do from there.

I'm hoping it is just a lack of experience of putting tranny's in...and the clearances are right...just needs to be persuaded a little more.