Put your hands in front of you; fingers touching; palms touching.
Think 45° and now cut that angle in half.
As you begin to angle one wrist towards the 22 degree angle, proportion the other wrist to come towards you.
As that twist happens, in proportion, you made that gap.
As you hold that gap, return that same wrist action back to touching your palms like you are twisting a lid off a jar say.
We are looking at the back of the clutch and this is the slipper in that horizontal sliding gap you might say, where the right hand is attached to the back wheel, your left hand is releasing lever to reconnect to the back wheel.
So hold your right hand as the output shaft, your left hand yanks back out 45° because before, we were moving both wrists to see how that spread happens once we pull the plates apart. That guy floats with that open gap. No two ways about it.
So the trick is, say at the back of your hand is the last clutch plate against your ramp being the left hand. As your left hand moves back into that 22 degree angle and closes on your palm, you are pushing the plate against the left hand too soon.
So if you could follow that left hand so as not to tag the back of that half part of the slipper plate, but slide with the ramp going home, or as slow and as linear as the whole ramp takes time to roll back in place is that visual.
So not only do you have the pressure plate springs, you also are fighting the star springs at the slipper. Your pressure release too fast, locks the plates too soon, forces the slipper back in, but no way. You have to wait for it to retract so as to 'follow it in.'
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