[Hugh R]

Thanks all for the encouragement! Hey Jim, yes, its a standard pressure plate in that it is the type with flat steel springs, I think its called a Laycock-design, as opposed to the ones that have lots of coiled springs and three "fingers" I had one of those once and it kept slipping. The flywheel is turned, not cast. Upon inspection, I found that the PP had a hunk of metal welded to it from years ago that put it out of balance, don't know why. When I rebuilt it five years ago, I had new pistons made which weight about 2/3 of the original pistons, and are well balanced. It always ran a little rough in terms of vibration, but after the rebuild, I think the only thing really out of balance was the PP and the vibration became more pronounced. I'd had the car apart for so long that when I put it back together, I thought the vibration was the trannie coming apart, because that's where the vibration manifested itself. Took the trannie apart and put it back together and the vibration was still there. Running the engine with the trannie out,and the flywheel and PP on you could barely feel the vibratiion on the engine. Also, yes, we're balancing the crank, then flywheel and then PP one at a time and then checking the whole thing. I really don't want to take this thing apart again in my lifetime. The reason that I MAY be getting off so "cheap" is that the pistons, chains, gears and entire head were gone through five years ago and not that many miles ago. Thanks again. I'll post more pics when I start to put it back together.