Subject: Clutch problems
Author: lio-@aol.com
Date: Jun 12, 2004, 1:10 PM
Post ID: 1716961772
Beautiful day on Long Island. Perfect for a ride along the north
shore. My 73 Eldo was runing just fine when coming into Huntington I
grabbed for the clutch and there was nothing there. I of course stalled
out. I pushed off to the side of the road and thought it was a broken
cable. No such luck. The cable was fine and the clutch lever on the
tranny moved in and out, but there was no resistance on the clutch.
After much looking around for a solution I got it into neutral and
pushed off kicking it into 1st. This way I was able to limp around
shifting up and down with out benefit of a clutch and make my way to a
friends house. After a nice cold one I went to put the goose in his
garage and lo and behold the clutch was working again.
Has anyone in the group had any experiences like this? Any Ideas on
what might have gone wrong? Can I trust the old gal to be ok? Do I have
to pull the tranny? I've never done that before.
Any insight would be appreciated!
Vince in NY