rugged clutch?

the clutch in my model A has always been a bear to push in. just getting a new motor and muncie 4 speed dialed in, and the clutch is till hard as hell. the clutch i took out was an old 3 finger style and i was sure a new stock clutch/trans would fix it right up. it's got a '62 chevy truck brake/clutch master on the firewall with an ansen style swinging pedal setup, it runs to a '68 international slave. any ideas on whats going on here? i drove it the way it was, and still could, but i'm going to have one leg like a bodybuilder in no time.

 

While you may have addressed this by getting a stock clutch setup, is the new one a diapraghm style. I had a setup that used a 3 finger pressure plate and 12 inch clutch disc of a 2 ton(or bigger) truck. a diapraghm pressure plate and 11 inch clutch disc setup fixed my problem.

 

Your piston sizes are wrong or your pedal arms hole spacing is off..........

 

my initial thought was bore size, but i'll check to see if there's any binding on the pedal.

 

Had the same problem a few months ago. I changed to a diaphragm style pressure plate and problem solved. Sometimes those pressure plates are real tough

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it's got a diaphragm style in it now. i was sure that this would do the trick.

 

Chevy MC is 1-1/8 ,correct slave is 1-1/16 . Pedal ratio should be about 6-1 with enough travel to stroke the MC to full stroke. TO fork been shortned ?

 

1-1/8" master, 1" slave. full fork.

 

Up grade the slave to 1-1/16 it will make a difference! I ran a 10.4 bent fingure diaphram cover with the 1-1/8 MC and matching 1-1/16 slave and about 6-1 ratio pedal and pedal effort was not bad. That cover I used was the performance # that Chevy used for years. My pedal system was made by me to roughly Ansen specs/design.