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My clutch?? I thought it was my clutch...now I'm not so sure.



Are you sure your clutch cable is ok where it goes through the firewall? 
  Its pretty hard to get all the pressure plate springs to fail at once.

Eric

Don Walter wrote:
> I just went through all this. It turned out to be the disk jamming on the
> shaft. I wire brushed it good with a brass wheel held by hand and put Permex
> Anti-Seize on the shaft and re-installed it, adjusted everything, now it
> works again. I found out that the actual movement is not very much. There
> was much more play in the lever than I expected. The starting position is
> about 3/4" to 1" from the bottom stop which really threw me off.
>  HTH, Don
> 
>  On 10/3/05, Jim Ruffi <sciroccos@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>>Pulled the tranny, 'cause my pedal went to the floor the other day. No,
>>the
>>cable wasn't broken. You could pull the lever up at the trans very easily,
>>way past the point where you're supposed to feel resistance and the clutch
>>is supposed to disengage. But my clutch doesn't disengage.
>>
>>Knowing I had a good and connected cable, I proceeded to take the green
>>end
>>cap off and check the arm and lever. No cracks, everything working.
>>Checked the throwout bearing for collapse. No problem there.
>>
>>Pulled the tranny, expecting to see a hole in the pushplate or a deformed
>>rod....nothing.
>>Pressure plate looks ok. Clutch worn, but looks ok. Rod is fine.
>>
>>I remember experiencing this many years ago and it being the result of a
>>pressure plate failing. Like the fingers had collapsed or something...I
>>could be mistaken....I hope that's what's going on here, as I have a new
>>clutch but no indication that it'll fix my problem.
>>
>>Your thoughts and advice is appreciated!!
>>
>>Jim
>>
>>
>>
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> Don Walter - Waukesha, WI
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