Re: Broken bellhouse
- From: "=?x-user-defined?q?=AB?= Paul =?x-user-defined?q?=BB?=" <" =?x-user-defined?q?=AB?= Paul =?x-user-defined?q?=BB?="@houston.rr.com>
- Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 18:19:58 GMT
d.roberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Ok. I'm drivin my car and all at once the engine boggs down as if it
> going to stop, then it runs fine for about a quarter mile then boggs
> down again and dies. As I'm pulling off the x-way, I push in the clutch
> and it goes to the floor with no resistant at all. Car wont start. I
> assume that the cluch isnt engaged and the transmission is in gear and
> that the safety switch wont let it start. Tow the thing home and find
> that the clutch master cylinder is compleatly out of fluid. Replace
> fluid. Upon further inspection I find a crack that is completely around
> the bellhouse. The starter is hanging on only with the wiring. On the
> two bolts bracket on the starter, one of those are broken. When this
> clutch went out all that happened was the car died and when I pushed in
> the clutch in it went directly to the floor. No loud bang or grinding.
> How could I have drove the car to where it broke down without a clutch?
> I wasnt with the car when it was towed home. My question is, do you
> think that the clutch may have broken the bellhousing? I feel that the
> tow truck may have dropped the car some way to cause this kind of
> breakage. This is a major crack in the b/h. ...Many thx ... Don
There could be several reasons why the bell housing on your
1995 Grand Am broke.
Before blaming someone else, I would look at:
motor mounts
half shafts
abuse
loose bolts
.
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