Hi Peter,
Sounds like the pressure plate or the dampener springs in the disk
are coming apart and jamming their release, it may be a rock in there,
but not if your luck is like mine. That's if the clutch pedal wouldn't
go to the floor, if it does that's in the hydraulics.
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Peter Pontbriand wrote:
>
> No, no puddles that I recall. They would have been frozen anyway. It hasn't
> been offroaded since before freeze-up, so it's not like I just did some
> fording or something.
>
> I can't say I've ever heard of a clutch being literally frozen before.
>
> So the intermittent warm idle "thunk thunk thunk" from the bellhousing and
> the new bunch-of-marbles-rattling-in-a-can-when-coasting-with-clutch-in
> sounds are unlikely to be related to this disengagement anomaly? (The new
> bunch-of-marbles-rattling-in-a-can-when-coasting-with-clutch-in sound is not
> the same as the old
> bunch-of-marbles-rattling-in-a-can-when-in-neutral-with-clutch-out sound.
> The latter is standard NV3550 fare I gather.)
>
> /Peter