First point to check, get someone else to press the pedal whilst you watch
the release arm to make sure it's moving sufficiently (anyone know how much
this should be?)
My next try would be warm up the engine, then, with a clear road in front
and behind, turn off and select first gear, release the handbrake, press the
clutch and start her up - hopefully the jumping will free the stuck plate,
come on and off the throttle as hard as possible too. Then get up to say
2000rpm in first, press the clutch and the footbrake hard too. Getting
brutal with this could break something though.
I would be reluctant to try anything harsher than this as it might bust
something and frankly if it is going to free without a stripdown, then this
ought to do it.
Good luck
Matt Lumb
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Howard <DigiFX@coastalnet.com>
To: buick-rover-v8@autox.team.net <buick-rover-v8@autox.team.net>
Date: 28 September 1999 21:41
Subject: Greetings & Problem
>OK, I've been lurking here long enough. By way of introduction, I am Ron
>Howard, long time owner of 2 chrome bumbered '74 MGBs, one of which I
fitted
>with a '62 Buick 215. Let me say I am impressed by the quality and
quantity
>of information you fellow listers make available. I'm hoping someone out
>there can offer me a better suggestion than I have come up with to solve my
>problem concerning a stuck clutch plate. It worked fine as late as 3 months
>ago....I've been moving and no time to play with car. These are facts about
>clutch system, though I don't think they should matter: Stock MGB master
>and slave, both new <1000 mi. ago. Action feels perfect at petal. I just
>completed a bleed job, just to make sure....petal feels as perfect as it
did
>before bleed. Clutch is 10" MGC, same as TR8, working on a trimmed down MGB
>flywheel. In 11,000 mi. it has always worked perfect. I have tried the
usual
>clutch freeing methods: 1) Use starter motor with petal in and gearbox in
>4th, 2) Petal down, 4th gear engaged....me pushing and pulling on car until
>exhaustion, 3) Petal down, 4th gear engaged...yank hell out of car with
>Jeep...result: car drags both Positraction geared rear wheels.
>Any ideas other than pulling motor and trans for surgery? Boy!...Do I not
>want to do that so bad!
>Please...somebody come up with a miracle here...Thanks for any other ideas,
>blessings, prayers, incantations, voodoo, whatever..... Ron
>
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