@edsnova posted:I've never got the hang of shifting Bridget without the clutch but my old Nova (350/Muncie) liked it, which was a good thing given the propensity of the clutch cross shaft (aka Z-bar) to crack and fail on a regular basis. Like my father before me, I kept a spare one in the trunk for just such an emergency.
What are you, Luke Skywalker? Are you a Jedi?
I had a Scirocco I back in the early 80s, first car I bought myself with a loan. It was a used 1977 in about 1984. The early Rabbits/Sciroccos used to eat clutch cables, I think they cost $10 to replace. I had one break on me one day and drove the rest of the way home without the clutch. It wasn't a big deal. The trans shifted great without the clutch. Not a single grind.
I kept an extra cable back by the spare after that, it could be changed without tools. But you were screwed if you lost the little flat piece of metal(and the rubber pad) with a slit in it that rested on the clutch arm. I got replacements for those as well.......