Re: Broken bellhouse
- From: "John S." <hjsjms@xxxxxx>
- Date: 31 Dec 2005 11:01:36 -0800
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
Was the car towed directly to your house or was it taken to the towing
lot. I can't imagine how a car could be been dropped hard and far
enough to cause only the bell housing to crack. I suspect that the car
was worked on by someone with less than the requisite skills and tools
to do the job properly and a few bolts were not tightened down.
.
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