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Nice Drive - then FWANGGGG! Clutch ?

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Subject: Nice Drive - then FWANGGGG! Clutch ?
From: Eugene Balinski <eugeneb@nni.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 20:10:18 -0300
Listers,

   Well it happened last Saturday.  I was out for a nice 
drive through Valley Forge Park.  I came to the end of the 
park road and put in the clutch.  All of a sudden - FWAANGGGGGGG
(sound of breaking spring)  and a spring falls to my feet - and
the clutch feels funny.  Oh S@*t...!  <----(bad word)

   So I figure that it is the clutch pedal return spring. OK. 
No replacement on-board.  I am thinking that I have yet another
flat bed trip coming. 

   The clutch return is weak but it looks like I can limp it home.  
I watch the tach for any signs of slippage on the clutch.  I don't see any. 
It looks good so I try it.   I do make it home (12 miles) and park the car 
in the garage, and go inside.  

   Later I come out to the garage to check on the car.  It smells funny.
Not good.  I can not place the smell, but it was not the normal, good, 
MG-in-the-garage smell.  It did not did it smell like a clutch either. Hmmm.


   My questions are, did I damage or glaze the clutch by driving the car back 
home 
after the spring broke ?   

    Do these springs normally break, or is this indicitive of some other 
problem in/with the
clutch or tranny ?

  Any/all help will be appreciated..

     Thanks,

      Gene Balinski K1NR/3
           80 B

PS  It was a good LBC day.  Spotted one orange/red TR- ? westbound on RT-422 in 
Valley Forge,  
    one TR -? westbound on Rt-29 from Collegeville to Phoenixville (Pa),
    and a Healy 3000 near the monument in Valley Forge park.  This could be a 
record for non-show
    related LBC spottings in E. Pa in a single day..... 

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