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Re: Clutch

To: Dave & Marlene <rusd@velocitus.net>,
Subject: Re: Clutch
From: Blue One Hundred <international_investor@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 20:37:14 -0700 (PDT)
Dave / Gary-

You are going from a dead stop so the OD won't be
engaged at this time... so slipping or bad OD pump
isn't the likely problem.

Sounds like the classic symptom of a slipping clutch
disc.  It's worn out and has to be replaced.  Your
flywheel is probably a bit glazed as well, and needs
to be resurfaced.

If you're lucky you can try driving while dropping the
clutch pretty fast for a while... this may help bring
back some surface to the disc & flywheel & stop the
slipping under heavy load...but to be honest it sounds
like ....

.... Time for a clutch job!

Cheers,

Alan

'53 BN1 '64 BJ8


--- Dave & Marlene <rusd@velocitus.net> wrote:
> Gary,
> 
> It is possible, even likely, that one of the OD
> clutches is slipping. I 
> don't know if this is simpler or not.
> 
> Dave Russell
> 
> 
> Pat & Gary Rice wrote:
>  > My transmission and clutch work fine until
> > the car has been driven for maybe an hour or 50
> miles.  Then if I get heavy
> > on the throttle from a dead stop, the clutch seems
> to be slipping until I
> > back off on the throttle, then engine speed slows
> down and car continues to
> > accelerate.  
> > Gary Rice
> > 61 HBT7L
> > Ventura, Ca 





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