In an empty parking lot,
Start motor in neutral
Get a bit of speed (downhill or friend pushing)
Nudge into 1st gear
Clutch peddle down
Gas on, gas off aggressively
Mike L.
60A,67E,59BUG
----- Original Message -----
From Trevor Boicey <tboicey at brit.ca>
To: Toby Atwater <Toby@intri-plex.com>
Cc: Spridgets@Autox. Team. Net (E-mail) <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: August 31, 2000 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: Stuck Clutch
> Toby Atwater wrote:
> >
> > Why not just jack up the rear end.... gun the engine, slam
e-brake on? Seems
> > safer than droping the car and peeling out and crashing.
>
> It might work, and might be worth trying first.
>
> However, the aggregate knowledge observed from a thousand
> LBC owners springtimes, the "drop the trolley jack" method
> seems to be the 400 pound gorilla of the stuck clutch problem.
>
> In other words, other things sometimes work, but this
> method almost always works and is often what finally solves
> the problem.
>
> --
> Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
> Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca
> ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
> "Find yourself a hittin' stick boy..." - Percy Spencer
>
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