Thanks so very much to all of you on your kind advice and assistance on this problem.
As you will remember Steve solved the flaky power problem right at the start of this ... but the very persistent clutch problem kept holding on. Many of you offered great troubleshooting advice on this and it helped me to eliminate a number of items.
The solution was given by Jeff (and John

Note that Steve suggested taking it back to BF and Jeff to work out a solution right at the beginning of this discussion.
Again ... thanks to you all on this ... both in your patience and willingness to help me with it.
Perry