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Re: clutch went straight to the floor

To: rmort@bezeqint.net
Subject: Re: clutch went straight to the floor
From: Paul Root <ptroot@iaces.com>
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 07:28:04 -0500
On a '70, shouldn't the pedal to MC connection be just under the black 
rounded over pedal box cover. Where the brake switch is mounted?


rmort@bezeqint.net wrote:

> got in the B (70 roadster) just now, to drive it to get my road test for the
> next 6 months.
> Made it to the stoplight at the end of my street, and when the light went
> green, I went to grab first, but the clutch pedal just went straight to the
> floor.
> After waving the traffic around me, I managed to push it to the side of the
> road to check things out.
> clutch cylinder - full inside, dry outside.  check.
> clutch pedal - moves smoothly on hinge, with only spring tension, as though
> not connected to anything.
> I was able to start the car already in 1st and drive around the block and back
> home, so the clutch itself engages.
> It feels like the connection between the pedal and the cylinder just gave up
> the ghost.
> Had to get back to work, so I just left it.
> How hard is it to get to the link with the pedal in the pedal box, and what is
> likely to have given up the ghost in there after 34 years?
> 
> Guess the B really didn't want to get tested today,
> Thanks,
> RMartin
> Tel Aviv
> 


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