"BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires" (biturbo228)
06/12/2014 at 18:38 • Filed to: Jaaag
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"BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires" (biturbo228)
06/12/2014 at 18:38 • Filed to: Jaaag | 4
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Got all the Jag's exhaust bits together the day before yesterday. Sounds good, raspier than I thought but overall pleasant. No noticeable increase in volume from within the cabin, but open the windows and it's far easier to hear the engine for rev-matching. This is a very useful trait, as I discovered...
Driving to work today I thought the clutch biting point was a little low, but as I hadn't driven in a while I thought it might just be a bit different compared to the Alfa.
Got into the car at the end of the day, and the clutch dropped straight to the floor.
Ah. Problems.
So, my method of getting home was to turn the car off, put it in first, start it and lurch forward and then rev-match for all my shifts until I had to stop again.
As I had a spare clutch slave cylinder from my gearbox swap, I thought that would be a good (read free) place to start.
Old and busted - new hotness
Easy access, minimal fuss. Swapped it, bled it and it now has a working clutch again :)
Happy days.
Racescort666
> BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
06/12/2014 at 18:42 |
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My buddy had a leaking clutch master (I think) in his Jeep. He said it got interesting sitting at a stop light one time as it started to creep into the intersection and he didn't quite realize what was happening and couldn't pop it out of gear right away.
CAR_IS_MI
> BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
06/12/2014 at 19:04 |
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I had to do thins in my old Honda when I lost the throw out bearing... The guy at the transmission shop was like "you drove this here!"
McMike
> CAR_IS_MI
06/12/2014 at 19:32 |
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Nothing annoys other motorists like creeping up to a red light in first gear - hoping, hoping, hoping it turns green before you have to turn the car off.
Jobjoris
> BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
06/13/2014 at 03:40 |
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It's a fairly useful skill for people like us. My first car, a Fiat Uno, tought me this as well. As it did teach me braking with my left foot to keep the engine running to prevent a stall.
shthar
> BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
06/13/2014 at 05:00 |
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If you drive a car for enough years, you will not need a clutch. You'll know by the sound when to shift and you can do it without puching in the clutch. Course, any car I had long enough to do that, the speedometer didn't work anyway so you had to do it by sound.
Been ten years since I had a manual tho, so I don't know if you could do this with a car made after the 80s.
nilkemorya
> BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
06/13/2014 at 11:17 |
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I find this really difficult to do with higher performance/displacement naturally aspirated engines. My 948 bugeye can probably get driven with it's starter like an electric car, when I had the mechanical clutch pivot break on the 455 GTO, the starter couldn't have gotten that moving if it had been pointed downhill with me pushing.
arrrrr32
> BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
06/14/2014 at 23:31 |
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I had my learning to drive with no clutch in my 1975 VW Rabbit. I was out one day, got in the car and the clutch went strait to the flor - the cable had snapped. I had read that you could get started by turning the car off, putting it in gear and using the starter to pull the the car and turn the engine over. It worked fine at every stop light, and I was able to get the car up onto the freeway heading home. I had to take an old fashioned cloverleaf from one freeway to another and thats where I ran into trouble. ( I-680N to CA-4 west in Pacheco C A)
When I took the car out of gear to negotiate the low speed cloverleaf I couldn't properly rev match the gears and ended up rolling around the cloverleaf in neutral. At the top I rolled to a stop in the center of the crossover ramp, hard against the rail. Traffic was crossing both behind and in front of me, and the heavy trucks made the overpass bounce to an alarming degree. It seemed to take forever to get a big enough gap for me to restart the car and try to shift out of first. Fortunately I made it safely across the gap and a scary low speed and was able to shift back up to 4th, and shift successfully the rest of the way home. One of my scariest driving experiences.
Even more challenging was when my throttle cable broke when out on the road - I wired up a cable to allow for hand control. It is amazingly hard to steer, clutch, shift and pull a wire to operate the throttle!
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BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
> arrrrr32
06/15/2014 at 09:27 |
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Bloody hell that last hand-throttle thing sounds terrifying. Must have felt like a boss when you got back though :)