Z-Bar alignment issues

[Damn too slow....:) what he said]

yes that is a problem that causes you not to be able to fit the clip on the pushrod eye
or to destroy it with 2 or 3 presses of the clutch peddle

usually its a case of the retainer wire ends not being in the groove of the nylon bushing shells.

put nylon shells on ball stud on chassis side
push z bar up and cram the seal up against the end. the tube should be right up close, nearly on to the chassis. then fit the retainer wire clip with its hook ends into the holes
with the tube in this position they will not seat... because they are sitting against the body of the nylon shells
slowly move the tube 1/16 - 1/8 of an inch in towards the bell and the ends of the retainer wire should seat into their groove in the shells.

once you have it right you should not be able to move the z bar tube towards the bell housing side, or indeed back towards the chassis side, and it should look like there is too much space at the bellhousing end.

I do this procedure with the bellhousing stud not mounted to the bell, but with it installed with its nylon bushes into the z bar tube

once happy bolt up the bellhousing mount.

the one way to test if you have it right is to try the clutch. If you ping off or destroy the clip that holds the pushrod to the Z bar arm, your Z bar tube is still positioned too far inboard.

once you have this right it will give a nice parallel pushrod under the car (straight eye pushrod) and it will be obvious which way your peddle to z bar upper arm link goes