Yep, 84k, original clutch & cable (will double-check the cable). Lots of pieces-parts sounds rattling around in there, noise changes with pedal actuation, pedal engaging just off the floor. Shifting very difficult, wanted to stall out right off the bat when starting out, shifts very hard so I kept them to a minimum. Figured I'm rebuilding the 915 anyway so may as well make the 10 mile trip home.

Amazing how people don't understand hand signals when your hazards are on... or that you might not want to tailgate a car doing 20mph with the hazards on... or how when I call on the cell phone & ask for you to open the garage door for me honey, I mean, like NOW, not when you're done swapping a load of wash over... Uh, can I retract the last one on the grounds of temporary insanity?

 

Women just have a different sense of urgency sometimes . . .

Sorry to hear about your clutch.

Ian

 

Is that Captain Clutch-Jam in your avatar, Fred?

Dare I even ask how you managed the trip? Starting from full stops?

Glad to hear you managed the whole thing, and without suffering a marital or laundry incident.

-Brent

 

I'd been planning on doing the clutch this spring anyway, I was just hoping to do it on MY terms, not on the car's. I had a 3/22/08 (my birthday, coincidentally) run planned with the guys from the SE Mass Breakfast Club, and without the annual bonus check in-hand yet, looks like I'll miss it. Wouldn't want to be the Taurus mingling with the 911's.

Funny though, I got no slippage prior, and pedal feel was the same up until the chattering / main event.

Ah, well, the fickle finger of fate has tapped me on the shoulder.

 

Hey, if Schumi could do 2/3 of an F1 race, and two pit stops, with only 5th gear available, good ol' Fred can get home without a clutch!

Oh, by the way, Fred, I think that your T.O. Bearing pulled out of the pressure plate, or maybe your release fork broke, or...

 

like when they want something done...somehow taking out the bins while i'm watching football/motorsport comes under the "emergency" category



good luck with the clutch fred

 

Sorry to hear...at least you her home.
Oh and driving with the hazzards on is illegal. Hazzards are for a stopped vehicle only.

 

It's my understanding that up here, hazards are also for any vehicle that is driving considerably below the posted speed limit / flow of traffic. I understand it's illegal to use them in that manner in Florida, but I believe other states are different.

 

I use my hazards on the road. If I notice traffic is on the highway is about to come to a very quick stop I put them on, when visibility goes way down I put them on, when another driver has let me in or done something courteous to me and I am in front of them I put them on 2-3 times to say thanks and if I was driving unexpectedly slow I would use them as well I guess. I once saw a van with all his tail lights out use them so he could make his way home at night, cops eventually found him and escorted him home.

 

I feel your pain bud, are you doing the job yourself? If you are when are you starting it and please take and post some pics.

 

Let's not forget the ever-popular use when parked illegally -- as if to say, I know I'm not supposed to be here, and somehow by acknowledging the fact, and drawing all this attention to it, the violation is somehow magically undone.

 

REAL men don't need a clutch to drive their cars! Slip it into one gear after another with good engine and tranny speed matching! Good luck!

 

That would be scarry with a 915 gearbox.



@ 84_carrera.... I was not trying to be a jerk about the hazzards thing, I have just seen some really bad instances of miss-use of them here. Most of the time its usually putting the driver or others on the road at more danger....esspecially the way we drive down here.

Now had I seen a guy driving a 911 with the hazzards on, I would have asked if you needed any help.

Michael

 

Michael -
No worries, I looked at it as an opportunity to do some more research on it, in case I was wrong.

I thought I remembered back from living in Mass it being in the little handbook they gave you with your permit (and that waaaaaaaas, maybe 20 some-odd years ago). Couldn't find anything specific on the MA & RI DMV sites this morning though. The DO mention when you are parked on the side of the motorway to use them, but I didn't see "don't-use" instructions, etc.

Anyway, thanks for the e-offer for help!

 

Fred, sorry to hear about your misfortune but congratulations on your attitude to the whole scenario. I hope that I am equally philosophical when my next breakdown occurs. You are a role-model to us.