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Should i drive the car, with a blown clutch?

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Old Oct 4, 2003 | 01:20 PM
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Should i drive the car, with a blown clutch?

I was going to trailer it but i have no way to trailer it until next week. And i really need to drop the car off before then.

It would be a 30 mile trip.

The car shutters and shakes, dont really know if it slips when applying gas when fully engaged. It did fine for the 7 mile trip home when it first broke.
It just takes a little force to put it in gear from a stop. There are only 3 stops between home and my destination.

I already bought the clutch/pp t/o bearing. And was going to buy a new slave and master cylinder.

Just wondering if i could hurt the tranny in any way bye doing this.

This alternative is looking better and better as i sit here. With no truck or trailer.


So should i drive it or not?
Old Oct 4, 2003 | 04:03 PM
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If you can drive the car (or limp it) home then drive it. Put it in the highest gear you can without the clutch slipping too badly. Use a feather touch on the gas pedal.

Typically the only thing that could happen is you'll wear the clutch down to nothing, but that's not good either I s'pose. The most extreme case is the rivets can gouge the flywheel and you won't be able to resurface it if the gouges are too deep, but then you might have already done the damage. You won't know until you get everything apart anyway.

But like I said, if you can drive the car in a lower gear with minimal slippage, then drive it home.
Old Oct 5, 2003 | 11:46 AM
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Honestly i think its just that the slave cylinder has air in it and wont let me completely disengage the clutch. Because once in gear it doesnt slip at all. As best i can tell.

Though the guy im supposed to drop the car off with has dropped off the face of the earth as of yesterday
Old Oct 5, 2003 | 01:48 PM
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Well, I guess you confused me then. When you say "blown clutch", I'm thinking the clutch disk is worn out/bad, so that's how I got my answer.
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