[George Bongert]

Hey JR!

One more thing you might check as to your clutch shudder and grab is loose transmission to bell housing bolts. As I recall, you have to remove the bell housing "pan" to tighten the bottom bolts, since they screw into the lower "ears" on the transmission, and the upper bolts screw into the bell housing itself. If your bolts are loose, tighten the top bolts first. I encountered this same problem myself many moons ago, and found the described bolts to be loose, and it doesn't take much to throw things out of whack and cause the problem you are describing. Outside of that, if there is no oil leaking from either the engine or transmission, you might have a warped clutch disc, which in my experience isn't too likely.