spongy clutch

[fazersharp]

See in my picture below your cables nipple gets hooked onto the tab which pulls up which turns the round thing with what looks like a tiny ball baring which then rises up/out to push on the clutch rod. There is a spring where it says spring whos job is to pull the arm back down and your leaver back out. The picture is what a clean cover looks like but the whole area can get jam packed with gunge-dead birds -grit so much so that it affects the clutch.
When you take the cover off you will destroy a thin gasket but there is no need to fit a new one, but even the very thin gasket removal may mean that you will need to adjust the clutch after.
When I did mine I took off the cable and hung it up and sprayed loads of parafin (think I used parafin )down and cleaned it followed by air to dry it followed by ACF 50 lube