Hi, folks!

About 18 months ago, my '83 started a habit of having its clutch cable regularly stretching and needing readjustment. I thought it might be ready to break (sort of failing thread-by-thread), so I replaced it. Soon the new one needed readjustment, so I did. Soon it needed adjusting again. I became worried about the throw-out arm starting to fail. I had my mechanic do a clutch and back end job, and I had him go over the throw-out arm for cracks or distortion. He assured me it was fine.

Here it is a year later, and I've adjusted this cable several times since, and I'm currently out of adjustment latitude. Today I'm going to slip in a piece of 1/4" brass as a shim between the throw-out arm and the rubber block which holds the ball end. This should give me about two months of breathing space before I need to adjust again.

What am I missing here; can cables stretch *that* much? Is it possible that the clutch pedal assembly is slowly distorting in some fashion to throw too much slack into the cable? Any wisdom out there of where to look next?

Thanks!

Rob