11 1/2" clutch wear

[Michael C Henry]

I have the McLeod set up, an alluminum flywheel ,machined and setup for up tp 12" clutch, 11 1/2" clutch and pressure plate. I allready failed to keep up with the clutch wear and resulting loss of free play a few years ago and the trowout bearing froze up and tore up the pressure plate fingers. My problem is trying to navigate city stereets around here the speed limit is mostly 30mph, stop and go, and school areas. I have the tunnelwedge intake a long duration cam and not much low end, at least from idle. I end up slipping the clutch to get things rolling and before you know it clutch throw out bearing free play is almost gone . I have a hydraulic slave cylinder on the frame a 3/8 dia push rod threaded at one end and a 5/8" hex ( bullet) about 1 3/8' long wtih 1" of internal threads to actually push on the throw out arm. I figure I have about a 1/2" to 5/8" adjustment range. I had to dismount the slave cylinder and remove the spring to remove the pushrod assembly. I bottomed tapped the internal threads in the bullet and removed about 1/8" of taperd threads on the 3/8" pushrod. I have free play now but no where to go after this clearence disssapears. I plan on making another bullet, this new one would be about 2 1/2" long . I'll grind one end to a taper with a rounded tip as original bullet. I plan on 2" of usable internal threads in the new bullet. I'll a make a new pushrod out of 3/8" drill rod, just a bit shorter than the original.
Any thoughts or reccamendations or warnings?