Two clutches, two days!

Friday night Stacie reported difficulty shifting her car, especially into reverse as her and Elliott were leaving a school event.  By the time she got to our driveway, it was a not-shifting-unless-I-force-it, hazard flashers on, luckily-I-could-nose-it-into-our-driveway sort of thing.  This is a disappointing turn of events, considering that we just replaced it in 2011, less than 20k ago.  I'll check the paper work but I'm sure that any warranty that Swedish Automotive provided has long since expired.  Gentle scraping noise when the pedal is depressed indicates to me that the throwout bearing has gone out.

Saturday, I ran errands in the afternoon and then let Stacie take the car to the nearby Westwood Village for a spot of shopping.  She had barely pulled in their parking lot when the clutch on my car died a violent, screeching noises and pedal to the floor death.  There's no question about the carnage inside of my bellhousing.

Weird thing is that both were working fine until the few minutes before their demise, my clutch especially.  Hopefully this means the input shafts on the Midlands were saved in both cases.  Both are eventually headed to Kurt's, mine first as it is somewhere other than safely in our driveway.

Sorry for the Sunday morning downer- I just hope that this 'double-clutching' (ha!) never happens to anybody else.

Bruce

You get the screeching, pedal to the floor one first, because it's sitting out on the street.  Stacie was able to nurse her car into the driveway.

Bruce