"a guy i talked to said (i was a little bit quiet)"
"it was peaked and tuned by clays radio shop.com (it sounds great.)"
which is it? unfortunately you have mentioned none of the necessary parameters (and possibly not measured any of them)
that would provide any indication of just exactly how well it is performing. you can forget the link to the alignment procedure, no one at clays has ever read it much less seen it and if you compare it with the file on cbtricks site you can see it has been re-written. (not original) hhmmmm....
i'm assuming that the S/N on your 2547 is somewhat higher than
T1T01601 as you haven't mentioned any of the problems associated with earlier builds of this chassis.
typical power output from the 2547 with a proper alignment is 6.5 - 7.0W carrier and 26 - 28W PEP on am and 30 - 35W PEP on ssb while still maintaining reasonably suppressed spurious emission levels. while you may think that it sounds great, comments such as "it was a little bit quiet" is a sure indication that peak-to-carrier levels on am are somewhat less than 4:1 meaning that modulation percentage is somewhat less than 95 - 100%, just FYI.
as to your original question, unlocking the clarifier to track in tranmsit mode is a rather simple operation while expansion may make the clarifier circuit extremely sensitive to minute movements of the control but no matter, simply unlocking it usually provides enough range in both directions to compensate for all off-frequency operation except for the most severe cases.
