
06-09-2006, 10:09 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Southwest,
WI
Cobra Make, Engine: Shell Valley, Mopar thingy (small block of course)
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Is my clutch shot?
Everything has been working pretty good until last Monday when I took the Cobra to class to give my instructor a ride. More about that later. Anyway, the car has about 8000 miles on it and on the way up is seemed to work OK but after I went to his office to get him we got in the car and it wouldn't go into gear unless I turned the engine off and it didn't up or downshift unless I matched revs. Then it started to work OK a couple stop signs later. Then it stopped working so well again. It was about 100* that day. Tonight I had my wife depress the pedal while I looked underneath thinking the adjustment was off with wear. The pedal goes down and I can see the clutch fork start to bend and it still isn't releasing the clutch. I can't rotate the tires by hand when jacked up in gear with the pedal all the way down. It looks and feels like something is not letting the fork push the TO bearing all the way in to release the clutch. It does need adjusting, the TO has no free play right now. I can still move the clutch fork by hand a little, but it is right up against the TO. I thought when the clutch wears it would start slipping.
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