A friend of mine had the exact same symptom with his Herald en-route to
a local show last Friday. When we took the box out, the clutch driven
plate had completely disintegrated. The centre was still in place on the
splined shaft, but the area carrying the clutch lining had broken away
completely, leaving no drive whatsoever.
Good luck, hopefully it will be straightforward,
Bill.
Kai Radicke wrote:
>
> It died this moring, at the Mobile Station...
>
> Put in $5 of Super, restarted the car... went to engage gear and I had a
> massive clunking noise, the car moved about 5 feet from the initial
> engagement.
>
> The car now won't drive, in any of the four gears. I ripped out the
> wonderful cardboard gearbox cover, drive shaft is still attached (at both
> ends); the differential doesn't appear to be hanging down. Engine starts
> fine.
>
> It makes absolutly no noises now, besides regular engine noise. But even
> when shifting thru the gears it makes no noises.
>
> Is it possible to break your gearbox mainshaft? Any other ideas?
>
> Looks like TRF is now shot, unless I can fix this by Saturday. I have
> really bad luck...
>
> --
> Kai M. Radicke -- kradick1@ic3.ithaca.edu
> Not the only Triumph TR6 @ Ithaca College
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