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@DannyP posted:....Be careful with blindly tightening the adjustment. Too much clutch throw WILL damage the pressure plate(over-extending the springs) requiring replacement.
Hey kids, this is a real thing, whether you've got a Spyder (with a cabled clutch) or a Speedster.
Let's not go into the little boring details about how I come to know this.
Folklore tells us if there's more than an inch or two of free play at the end of the clutch pedal, you need to crank in on that wing nut at the lever arm on the transaxle until the 'problem' is 'fixed'.
But folklore never follows with the advice Danny gives above. The pedals in our cars will allow you to keep on pushing down until that little hook on the back of the pedal grinds into the rug. There's nothing in the clutch itself that limits motion to protect the springs in the pressure plate.
Maybe the geometry of our pedal installation is different than it was on the beetle, or maybe the lever on the transaxle is different, but whatever the reason, this is a thing.
And it's hard to know right away when you've gone too far with the adjusting wing nut. I ended up putting a block on the bottom of the clutch pedal, keeping it from going all the way to the floor.
There's probably a more elegant solution, but I'm not good at elegant.
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