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Re: clutch seizure

To: Laura Gharazeddine <Laura.G@141.com>, spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: clutch seizure
From: Fred Griffiths <griffco@mail.cadvision.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 18:04:26 -0600
Hi Laura and all,
    The return spring I am referring to is not the pedal return spring, but the 
small coil spring inside the master cylinder.  Can't see the d***d thing till
its all apart.

Cheers, Fred

Laura Gharazeddine wrote:
Ahhh yesss...the old 'Broken Return Spring Ploy'!

> Twice, on two different cars, I've had the spring break on the 
>accelerator-once while coming down a mountain road on the edge of the middle 
>of nowhere...
>
> However, I wasn't terribly aware of the return spring on the clutch 
>m/c-thanks. (Now I have another thing to worry and obsess about!) ;-)



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