[6pack] Clutch not working

[Rob Pennington]

I just went through this with my car after  it sat for about five years.   The
disk is frozen to the flywheel.

I had lots of room for this so i didn't runinto anything.  I started the car
in first gear with the clutch depressed, which takes a good battery and a car
that starts up reasonably well.   The car was  moving along in first gear with
the clutch still depressed.  I gave it some gas to make the car try to
accelerate and and then backed off.  This was basically stressing the frozen
connection between the friction disk and the flywheel by having the clutch
pedal still pressed.  After several times the clutch disk broke free and
started working again.

Best of luck!

Rob

74 TR6

On Sep 1, 2013, at 15:49, "Dale Katzfey" <dkatzfey at woh.rr.com> wrote:

> He is what has happened.
> First, I did not run the car for 2 years.  Sat in a garage.
> Second, I did get her started.
> Third, pushed in the clutch and tried to get it in reverse, gears started
to
> grind.  Tried other gears and could not engage.
> Fourth, bled the lines and made sure that the slave cylinder was moving.
It
> was moving pretty well.  I didn't measure it.
> Clutch still didn't disengage
> Fifth, I jacked up the rear wheels and started it in gear.  Wheels spun in
> forward and reverse.  Pulled the hand break with the clutch in and out.  I
> just could not get the clutch to release. Even stalled the engine with the
> hand break and clutch depressed.
>
> The clutch is probably about 15 years old, but only has about 20,000 miles
on
> it.
>
> Do I have to get to the clutch or is there something else I can do to free
it
> up? I really don't want to pull the transmission again.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Dale
>
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