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Re: Freeing Stuck Clutch Discs

To: Wiedemeyer <boxweed@thebest.net>, Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
Subject: Re: Freeing Stuck Clutch Discs
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 14:59:45 -0400
Cc: Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
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Just be sure you are pointed OUT of the garage ;-)

Larry

At this exact moment in time 7/11/01 10:09 AM, "Wiedemeyer"
<boxweed@thebest.net> made the profound statement:

> Thanks for the advice, Trevor.  I'd never thought of that.  Have you ever
> actually tried this method, and been successful with it?  If so, then I'll
> try it.
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
>> Wiedemeyer wrote:
>>> 
>>> Speaking of clutch plates rusted to flywheels, does anyone have an easier
>>> method of un-sticking them without removing the engine/trans, or trying
> to
>>> "pop" it free by rocking the car in gear with the clutch pedal depressed
>>> (didn't work for me, and I didn't want to get too vigorous with this, for
>>> fear of breaking stuff in the transmission)?  (ie) is there any type of
>>> "tool" that anyone has made, or used, that can be stuck through the
>>> inspection hole, or somewhere else, to grab the clutch plate and pull it
>>> loose?
>> 
>>  Trolley jack on the diff, clutch in, car in fourth gear, get it
>> up to speed, let the car down.
>> 
>>  If that doesn't work, nothing will. Never heard of it hurting
>> anything either. You have to beleive the flywheel/clutch rust
>> is the weakest link and will break before anything expensive. ;>
>> 
>> --
>> Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
> 

> 



Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bbl.med.upenn.edu
System Administrator/Manager
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St. - 1015 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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 --Mark Twain 



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