Hydraulic Throw out bearing

[Jamo]

Here's the thing...they are great when they work (good pedal feel, packaging, etc.), and the vast majority last as long as you need. The problem comes if and when you end up with a problem out in the middle of phuking nowhere (a description of 80% of the land west of the Rockies).

With an external slave, you dig out the seal kit you were smart enough to carry with you or get to the nearest Napa, Pep Boys, etc. and you fix the sumb!tch, fill it and bleed it and get on your merry phuking way.

With an internal...pull out your AAA card and wait a few hours for the truck and then sit on the bench seat next to the tow truck driver and listen to his view of the world while he spits chew juice out the window (when his aim's good), and then figure out how to get your beast home so you can: 1) pull the motor and trans out, or 2) pull your interior and trans out...and then redo the little basturd all over again.

Sh!t WILL fail on these basturds (notwithstanding Hal and his Cobra from another planet)...the issue is how easy it will be to fix and get back on the road.

KISS

[Ibr8k4vetts]

Originally Posted by Jamo

Here's the thing...they are great when they work (good pedal feel, packaging, etc.), and the vast majority last as long as you need. The problem comes if and when you end up with a problem out in the middle of phuking nowhere (a description of 80% of the land west of the Rockies).

With an external slave, you dig out the seal kit you were smart enough to carry with you or get to the nearest Napa, Pep Boys, etc. and you fix the sumb!tch, fill it and bleed it and get on your merry phuking way.

With an internal...pull out your AAA card and wait a few hours for the truck and then sit on the bench seat next to the tow truck driver and listen to his view of the world while he spits chew juice out the window (when his aim's good), and then figure out how to get your beast home so you can: 1) pull the motor and trans out, or 2) pull your interior and trans out...and then redo the little basturd all over again.

Sh!t WILL fail on these basturds (notwithstanding Hal and his Cobra from another planet)...the issue is how easy it will be to fix and get back on the road.

KISS

Are you telling me YOU can't drive with out clutch

[JayBar]

Cashburn,
You have posted the picture of your bracket before, but it is really to dark to get a "feel" for what it is connected to etc. Could you take a new picture and post it? BTW how much do you want for a bracket?

[Wayne Maybury]

Originally Posted by Ibr8k4vetts

Are you telling me YOU can't drive with out clutch

My feelings, exactly. A clutch does make driving easier (especially in stop and go traffic) but it isn't "assolutely" necessary.

Wayne

[Jamo]

Originally Posted by Ibr8k4vetts

Are you telling me YOU can't drive with out clutch

My first "car" in high school was a half-ton 49 Plymouth flatbed truck that I would load empties, tomatos or grapes on the back of on the way home from school. Took Cheerleader on our first date in that thing.

I really didn't know about them new fangled things called clutches...seemed like they were for sissys.

Bite me for doubting me.