Holy crap do I love the internet.
I drove down to Dunedin today. Just as I got there, my clutch got all funny on me. *OH NOES!*
The way it was before, it would engage about half way through it's travel. This took me a bit to get used to, but I did. I'm used to clutches grabbing very quickly.
Everything was normal till I stopped a few K's out to check my map. After that there was a big change in where the clutch grabbed. Now it was nearly immediate. First gear got pretty hard to get to as well. Oh crap... did the clutch just die?
Off to the internet to see if I could find out some info.
Most of it didn't sound like a burnt clutch, although some stuff did say that having difficulty getting into gear was one sign.
A bit more digging and I found out that clutches have an auto-adjustment if you pull the clutch pedal towards the seat... which I've done. I may have done this as well when I stopped to check the map.
The guy that wrote it said that he didn't like the auto-adjusters cuz they set the clutch annoyingly close to the floor... sound familiar?
There's a way to check for sure (stall it in 2nd like you're learning to drive stick). That'll have to wait for tomorrow.
Jim
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and he's a mechanic too! Another sign of Filipiak/Skoraism. LOL Glad you are safe. Dad is sure he is mostly Dyke. His Rooney relatives were mechanical; Dykes were into Chemistry and Mathematics. lol
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