May 03, 2005
Jeep Blogging
(Not actually mine, but close akin. Image courtesy of The Australian.)
Well here's a bit of good news. My baby is all better. It turns out the clutch master cylinder had gone duff and needed to be replaced. What is a clutch master cylinder, you ask? One of these things:
An ugly spud, to be sure. But without it, you can't shift gears, which gets to be rayther a problem.
The even better news is that my warranty covered the repairs.
Yay!
Robbo,
You CAN shift without a clutch. I did it for almost a month in my Saturn. Key is, you have to park on a hill so you can get the car rolling fast enough to engage in first gear. The only problem around Charlottesville is that occasionally I couldn't get started after a stop light. But once you're rolling, it's really a matter of becoming as one with the engine and engaging the gears at the right speed and RPM.
A clutch does make things easier.
Vic - brethren of sorts with Esteban, your Hispanic Llama.
Posted by: Vic Barry (former regional rock star) at May 3, 2005 01:24 PM
