Clutch Cable Adjust: What's wrong?

[BrokeMyCar]

I've been trying, and failing, to correctly adjust my clutch by the book. I have it to a place that feels good, but I don't understand what went wrong - any thoughts?

The car: 82 911SC

What I did:
-Disengaged the clutch cable at the tranny (using a hanging weight to keep the pedal up)
-set the distance between the set-screw and the little arm to 1.2mm
-engaged the clutch cable (still with the weight), adjusted the two nuts so the set-screw distance reduces to 1.0mm

What went wrong:
Once I pushed down on the clutch twice and rechecked the clearances there was no space between the set-screw and the little arm. I repeated the whole process twice, still to no avail.

Any ideas? I took it for a drive, and the clutch is perfectly usable.

Babak

PS I don't know if it makes a difference, but a couple days ago I found the clutch return spring on the little arm was missing and replaced it before these adjustment attempts.

[DaddyGlenn]

I had the exact same thing happen to me!

What I found was the the bushings at the tranny were old and dry. There wasn't enough pull from the return spring or the pedal spring to get that last .2.

I rinsed the bushings with WD-40 then hit them with some lithium grease. then I worked the levers until my arm was sore. All that work got me to the point that I would release the clutch and a moment later the pedal would pop up just a tad more. After a month or two like that everything loosened up and it works perfectly now.

Changing the bushings is on my list of "to-dos" however.

Glenn