thegoat4
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- Joined
- Aug 12, 2007
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- Vehicle Year
- 1998
- Make / Model
- Ford
- Transmission
- Manual
A while back I was asking about the best clutch to get as a replacement because I knew mine was failing. Well, I was a little short on cash, christmas was coming, and I wanted to see if I could make it to new year's.
Obviously this plan had to go south at the worst possible time. I'm in the middle of moving, I need to be out of the old place by the 31st, and I have to be down in Victoria for the week starting monday. The plan was to hammer out the move this weekend, work in victoria all week, then come back, clean up the old place and turn in the keys, go do the christmas thing, go back to victoria for another week, then come home and change the clutch in celebration of the new year.
Last night when parking it refused to go into reverse without a lot of pressure on the stick, and while holding the clutch pedal in I can hear some pretty nice sounds coming out from under the truck. Like pieces of my dampener springs are jingling around inside the clutch.
Of course, today is sunday and all of my tools are locked up at work. And all of my friends are either out of town or deadbeats.
I had three plans I was working on at once:
-leave a message with the boss saying I needed the shop truck.
-get a clutch from advance (zoom clutch) and scrounge favors and tools so I could get it changed today
-find a rental
Lucky for me my boss called back and I now have the joy of driving a crew cab chevy pig for the next week. Oh boy am I excited! I've got that zoom clutch sitting behind the seat in my ranger, but I think I'll take it back and get a centerforce. It feels flimsy.
Obviously this plan had to go south at the worst possible time. I'm in the middle of moving, I need to be out of the old place by the 31st, and I have to be down in Victoria for the week starting monday. The plan was to hammer out the move this weekend, work in victoria all week, then come back, clean up the old place and turn in the keys, go do the christmas thing, go back to victoria for another week, then come home and change the clutch in celebration of the new year.
Last night when parking it refused to go into reverse without a lot of pressure on the stick, and while holding the clutch pedal in I can hear some pretty nice sounds coming out from under the truck. Like pieces of my dampener springs are jingling around inside the clutch.
Of course, today is sunday and all of my tools are locked up at work. And all of my friends are either out of town or deadbeats.
I had three plans I was working on at once:
-leave a message with the boss saying I needed the shop truck.
-get a clutch from advance (zoom clutch) and scrounge favors and tools so I could get it changed today
-find a rental
Lucky for me my boss called back and I now have the joy of driving a crew cab chevy pig for the next week. Oh boy am I excited! I've got that zoom clutch sitting behind the seat in my ranger, but I think I'll take it back and get a centerforce. It feels flimsy.