ORIGINAL: 1QwkSport2.5r
There are two ways to have an improperly shimmed clutchbell. Too loose or too tight with the former being more likely with all other variables being right.
When you say the bearings are "good", are you taking them out of the CB and checking for lateral play? If the ball bearings or the races that hold them are worn, the bearing will spin "like its on ice" but will be loose with side play.
I'm not picking on you - but if it is tight at the start and comes back loose, something isn't right.
I know you aren't "picking on me". Hell, I appreciate the responses...I posed my question in hopes to learn something. Yeah, I did take them out of the bell and spin them on the shaft. I did not notice any lateral play...BUT it was late (I was half asleep and in a hurry) and did not move them on the shaft to check (as I know I should have).Itmakes sense, though...one or both bearings have to be worn. Cannot think of anything else. Going to run them one more time and then replace them.