mechanism 18 the magnet 20 can be particularly coupled to a moving part 22 of the clutch mechanism 18 the moving part 22 may be a transmission clutch component such as a piston that moves a transmission clutch in non limiting embodiments moreover the clutch component may have a movement range in excess of 25 millimeters in non limiting embodiments however it is to be understood herein that the magnet 20 may be placed on any acceptable moving part of the clutch mechanism 18 as determined by those skilled in the art continuing with fig2 a transmission clutch position sensor 24 is disposed outside the casing 16 and is capable of sensing a magnetic field generated by the magnet 20 it is to be understood that the sensor 24 is relatively inexpensive and preferably does not include a coil including any type of electro magnetic coil the sensor 24 will be described in greater detail in fig3 and 4 the position sensor 24 disposed outside a transmission casing 16 bears a gap distance 26 within a tolerance from the moving part 22 in non limiting embodiments the normal gap 26 may be anywhere from 5 millimeters up to 30 millimeters after the sensor being calibrated at the normal gap the sensor 24 may still output relatively constant measurements of the relatively large linear position of the moving part 22 at particular times based on the magnetic field generated by the magnet 20 regardless of where in the few millimeters tolerance of the gap the sensor is disposed further the position sensor 24 may include plural sensing elements that will be functionally described in.