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A couple weeks ago I put a post up about my clutch making weird noises. What happened was I spun a donut in some sand and immediately afterward my clutch started grinding and became about twice as hard to push in as normal. The only reply I got on this board was to check my clutch fluid (it was fine) and clutch fluid wouldn't make it start directly after that donut anyway unless there was a huge coincidence because there were *no* problems before then.
So I didn't know what to do. I just kept driving it, as I (unfortunately) became used to the problem. Yesterday while backing out of my driveway, I noticed it was squealing extremely bad when I first started it (it never did that before) and when I pushed the clutch in it would stop. I shifted into reverse and backed out, then when I went to take the truck out of reverse, it pushed all the way down and got stuck. I would lift my foot a little and it stayed down. I pulled it out with my foot from behind, managed to get it into first and pull back into the yard. After that the clutch would work but rather than pushing smoothly it would kind of pop in or out, and took a lot of force. My dad told me to back it somewhere else so we could get it towed and when I went to do that, the clutch apparently became stuck engaged because now the pedal moves extremely easily (obviously dead) and will not come out of neutral even though you can shift the gears all around and move the clutch. they towed it this morning, I will update everyone on the prognosis as soon as I found out.
My brother suggested that a finger broke off of the pressure plate and was floating around in there (hence the grinding) and eventually became lodged in somewhere. I think that if a finger broke off it would have screwed up a lot sooner because that's pretty big to be floating around in there. But maybe a smaller piece of metal?
If anyone has any idea what exactly is wrong or has had experience with this I would appreciate any input! Thanks.
By the way I have just over 90,000 miles.
So I didn't know what to do. I just kept driving it, as I (unfortunately) became used to the problem. Yesterday while backing out of my driveway, I noticed it was squealing extremely bad when I first started it (it never did that before) and when I pushed the clutch in it would stop. I shifted into reverse and backed out, then when I went to take the truck out of reverse, it pushed all the way down and got stuck. I would lift my foot a little and it stayed down. I pulled it out with my foot from behind, managed to get it into first and pull back into the yard. After that the clutch would work but rather than pushing smoothly it would kind of pop in or out, and took a lot of force. My dad told me to back it somewhere else so we could get it towed and when I went to do that, the clutch apparently became stuck engaged because now the pedal moves extremely easily (obviously dead) and will not come out of neutral even though you can shift the gears all around and move the clutch. they towed it this morning, I will update everyone on the prognosis as soon as I found out.
My brother suggested that a finger broke off of the pressure plate and was floating around in there (hence the grinding) and eventually became lodged in somewhere. I think that if a finger broke off it would have screwed up a lot sooner because that's pretty big to be floating around in there. But maybe a smaller piece of metal?
If anyone has any idea what exactly is wrong or has had experience with this I would appreciate any input! Thanks.
By the way I have just over 90,000 miles.