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It is running, but… the clutch doesn’t disengage

Well everything is moving along nicely.  Finally got the car running and it sounds great.  It took a couple of hours to go through the break in process, changed the oil to take the car for a drive, and… the clutch won’t disengage.  Feels like this car isn’t going to make it on the road before the snow comes. I’ve already had one volunteer indicate they would push me around the block if it comes to it.

One of the experiments in this car was to try an RTS clutch.  This appears to be an excellent alternative to switching everything out to a pre verto clutch and was fairly easy.  In the picture below you can see the double up’d fingers on the revised pressure plate.

rts-clutch

Now the hope is that making this change isn’t want is causing me the trouble.  Unfortunately it is looking more and more like I am going to have to try and get the clutch cover off and see how exactly this thing was put together…

As an aside here is a link to instructions on the RTS clutch. http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=437563

Jeremy