Geo Hahn said:
But as far as walking home, I consider driving without a clutch to be a relatively essential skill if one drives any car with a clutch beyond cell phone range. It has gotten me home quite a few times, not always in a LBC. On my Chevy, the clutch cable broke twice and the pedal once. Even a friend's Miata lost the clutch hydraulics once, although I wasn't driving it at the time.
I just don't want to ever again have to pull the interior apart and remove the gearbox, just to replace that darn taper pin!
BTW, the originals were pretty hard and still broke from time to time. I'm not convinced that the Moss "hardened" pin is any better than that, though no doubt it is better than the "old cheese" replacements that were being sold by some others.