If you can safey have someone tow you at a slow speed, try letting the
clutch out while you are moving.
Valerie Stabenow, 62 MGA MkII, 67 TR4a, 69 XK-E FHC, 73 TR-6, 81 Corvette
Coupe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Nederkoorn" <nederkoorn@vinden.nl>
To: <6pack@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 3:34 PM
Subject: Stuck clutch
> Listers,
>
> In preparing my TR6 for the road I have encountered a clutch that won't
> disengage. I had it apart, some years ago and put it back together for the
> lining was sufficient and there were no other obvious failures. After all,
> it was working before. The clutch fork is welded to the shaft (DPO
repair),
> there is not too much play on the clevis pins. I have two possibilities
> myself: clutch is stuck to the flywheel (I tried to free it by jacking up
> the car, in gear, engine running and jamming on the handbrake, no result).
> Or one of the cylinders, master or slave, is not working properly. How to
> check that?
> I shure would hate to take the freshly assembled interior apart again to
> pull the tranny. (Looks terrific and very pleased with the quality, bought
> from John Skinner NFI)
> I hope the collective wisdom can help me out?
> (I live in the Netherlands so I'm in digest)
>
> Marc Nederkoorn
> 74 TR6
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