The whole evening was plain frustration from start to finish. The night before (Tuesday) we had tightened the friction plate to the flywheel. In the process we managed to get the friction plate off centre so when it came to getting the shaft to go all the way home it just wouldn't.
So eventually I decided to slack the pressure plate off and jiggle (that's a technical term) the friction plate around to centre it. I succeeded in aligning it correctly but then when I torqued the bolts joining the pressure plate to the flywheel one snapped right off. In hindsight I guess it was better then stripping the flywheel thread.
Today I took the flywheel off to an engineering shop and they fixed it while I went looking for new bolts. All sorted and ready to continue.
Right now I feel like I could take on the whole Empire myself.
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