[modelamodela]

Although I greatly appreciate the input regarding trying to adjust the assembly on the car, I removed the tranny and found: many small cracks and scoring in the flywheel surface; irregular wear on the disc; funny looking wear and hot spots on the pressure plate surface. As far as I could tell, everything was screwed up. So I went through my collection of flywheels and found one that looked perfect, installed it and bought a rebuilt pressure plate from Bratton's, together with new bearings and disc. Put it all back together, but there is snow around and haven't yet driven the car. I suspect it will be much improved, or at least much different, since everything is changed. Only thing I didn't do was balance the assembly, no machine shop around here does that routinely.
Thanks to everyone who chimed in .