As some of you may know we have a Mustang 5 spd in our Valaint. I used the original Bellhouseing , linkage . throwup bearing and 9" pressure plate. I also used a 9" clutch disc for the Mustang trans. We have put a z8illion miles on this combo with excellent results.
On Christmas day after dinner Alex drove the car home in a foot of fresh snow, backed in the driveway and parkder.
In the morning the clutch would not disengage. The linkage was operating fine, no big noises. With the engine off all the gears were available. We left it a couple of days with some kind of hilly billy belief it might fix itself. Apparently it wont.
He needs the car to get to work so I stopped by on the way to the ski hill to have a boo. Same game. I have some cardiac issues at the moment so decided not to drop the tranny in the snowy driveway. With Alex following in the Sub I started the car in 1st and drove to the shop that does our fleet servicing. The trans shifted all through the gears nicely (no clutch) and I ran the stop sign at the highway no probs.
By the time I got to town I figured if the clutch was frozen from ice it might have thawed. I tried depressing the clutch and reving the engine and sure nuff! I continued to the shop but by then it was froze again. It only takes 10 mins to drop the trans on the hoist ,,,so we did.
The Mustang clutch disc had worn enough to allow the spring retainer to contact the flywheel and bust it up a little.
New disc ordered ($75 cdn) and a little machining on the flywheel should fixer up. The plan is to take off .125 on the area where the interference occured.
Ill letcha know how it works out.
