Clutch woes---solved...

[mr.utility at highstream.net (mr.utility@highstream.net)]

Sure...  Had a friends digital camera there, but did not think about it...  
Perhaps I will take a shot of what is left of the clutch, although I am not 
sure how that will help at this point...

David


Quoting Patrick Bureau <txrocco@sbcglobal.net>:

> pictures are always worth a million words.
> 
> ATS - Patrick Bureau
>  
> 
> ->-----Original Message-----
> ->From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
> ->[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of
> ->mr.utility@highstream.net
> ->Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 8:57 AM
> ->To: T. Reed
> ->Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> ->Subject: Re: Clutch woes---solved...
> ->
> ->
> ->Well, I have no firm idea....  This is my first clutch...  Tranny 
> ->work has 
> ->always left me cold...
> ->
> ->   I 'think' the trouble was that, the clutch began to 'shell', I 
> ->heard the 
> ->crunch...  I assume this because it began to bind?  Anyways, when 
> ->I put my 
> ->foot on the pedal, it went to the floor...  And then I could not 
> ->engage the 
> ->clutch with it running/rolling, even if I pulled up the pedal...  
> ->Half the 
> ->friction material went from the clutch plate to dust/debris 
> ->elsewhere in the 
> ->clutch assembly...  This meant that I had all sorts of slack now 
> ->that was not 
> ->present before it shelled on the one side...  And/or the clutch 
> ->was engaged 
> ->all  the time because that material was bunched-up in the 
> ->mechanism...  To be 
> ->honest, I don't know...  I do know that clutches do not look like 
> ->that unless 
> ->they are blown, that is about it!
> ->
> ->David
> ->
> ->Anyone else with an idea of how clutches/trannies work, inform us 
> ->where I am 
> ->right/wrong...?
> ->
> ->
> ->Quoting "T. Reed" <treed2@wsu.edu>:
> ->
> ->> > Well folks,
> ->> >    It was the most obvoius thing of all the possibilities, 
> ->and the most
> ->> costly
> ->> > both for time/money...  The clutch friction material on the 
> ->flywheel side
> ->> > disintergrated all at one...  This would explain why I heard 
> ->the crunch,
> ->> and
> ->> > then mashed on the clutch pedal and it went to the floor...  
> ->I think one
> ->> major
> ->> > piece broke off, and then chewed its way all the way around, 
> ->which gave me
> ->> no
> ->> > pedal resistance...
> ->> 
> ->> Hmm, could you elaborate on the failure?
> ->> 
> ->> I'm not quite seeing right off the bat here how what you've described
> ->> translates in to a clutch pedal at the floor and a clutch that behaves
> ->> like it is stuck 'engaged'?
> ->> 
> ->> I'm just curious; please enlighten me! :)
> ->> 
> ->> -Toby
> ->> 
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