Clutch with flexible coupling between release bearing and levers

A motor vehicle clutch release bearing and actuating mechanism comprising in combination a housing member, a clutch-disengaging device including a plurality of clutch release levers, a rolling-element thrust bearing and a hydraulically operated actuating device, said clutch-disengaging device being actuable, via said rolling-element thrust bearing, by said hydraulically operated actuating device, said hydraulically operated actuating device comprising a pair of coaxial stepped cylindrical members which define an annular chamber therebetween, the outer of said cylindrical members being slidable over the inner of said cylindrical members, said inner cylindrical member being fast to said housing member, wherein the inner ring of said rolling-element thrust bearing is fast to said outer cylindrical member and the outer ring of said rolling-element thrust bearing is flexibly coupled, by a coupling member, to said clutch release levers of said clutch-disengaging device so as to rotate therewith, said coupling member having the capability of flexing radially with respect to the axes of said rolling-element thrust bearing.