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Hi, I'm new here (introduced myself already) and now I have a problem.
I let my 1978 Spitfire 1500 sit in the garage last week to keep it out of the rain and today drove to work again. It's been my daily ride for the last month since I bought it and has been great (except for a constant miss on Cyl #1). Today, though, the clutch pedal, though feeling the same as always, would only engage in the last little bit of pedal travel.
Actually, it started out just a little "off" though working OK (I thought after a week I'd lost my touch) and got progressively worse through the 4 mile drive to work. By the last quarter mile the pedal could barely get the clutch to engage at all when I had it jammed into the firewall and I had to force a couple of gear changes to make it to the parking lot.
Now it sits out there, parked in neutral, and I don't know what to do. I haven't checked the crankshaft thrust washer endplay yet though I know that's a culprit in these sort of things. Is this how it might behave if the washers have fallen out?
I have driven lots of stickshifts but this is the first one I owned so working on clutches and the such are new to me.
Thanks,
Kevin
I let my 1978 Spitfire 1500 sit in the garage last week to keep it out of the rain and today drove to work again. It's been my daily ride for the last month since I bought it and has been great (except for a constant miss on Cyl #1). Today, though, the clutch pedal, though feeling the same as always, would only engage in the last little bit of pedal travel.
Actually, it started out just a little "off" though working OK (I thought after a week I'd lost my touch) and got progressively worse through the 4 mile drive to work. By the last quarter mile the pedal could barely get the clutch to engage at all when I had it jammed into the firewall and I had to force a couple of gear changes to make it to the parking lot.
Now it sits out there, parked in neutral, and I don't know what to do. I haven't checked the crankshaft thrust washer endplay yet though I know that's a culprit in these sort of things. Is this how it might behave if the washers have fallen out?
I have driven lots of stickshifts but this is the first one I owned so working on clutches and the such are new to me.
Thanks,
Kevin