My sofar safest stuck clutch disk solution:
Start car in neutral and idle
Get a hand push to 5mph
Slip it into 1st gear, (now the motor is connected to the rear
wheels)
Push and keep clutch pedal pressed down
Accelerate/decelerate aggressively till disk frees up
Mike L
60A,67E,59Bug,74TR6
----- Original Message -----
From: Marc Nederkoorn <nederkoorn@vinden.nl>
To: <6pack@autox.team.net>
Sent: May 9, 2002 4:34 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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