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Re: Manual Transmission and Smell
Posted by EddieBob (more from EddieBob) on Wed, 1 Mar 2000 16:51:10
In Reply to: , Kok Chen, Sat, 17 Dec 1988 12:00:00

If the clutch gets burned, and it sounds like it did, you will smell it for
a while. However your sister probably didn't do it that much harm.

I was once using my '92 9000 5 speed to pull a rather large shrub stump and
burned the clutch, getting a pretty strong smell for the next few days. I
worried about it for almost a year, even though it never was a problem. At
the end of that year, and unrelated to my stump pulling escapade, I had
fifth gear go out. I told the mechanic the story of the stump pulling, (he
just rolled his eyes, just like most of you are probably doing right now,
but hey, a Saab is a very utilitarian vehicle) so he would inspect the old
clutch for excessive wear. He said that even with 80k miles on the car (and
being used as a stump puller), it didn't really need a new clutch. I had
one put in anyway, because most of the cost of a clutch replacement is
labor, and with the transmission out, the clutch was right there.

Bottom line for your car... Don't worry about that smell. And give your
sister a driving lesson. ;-)

Eddie Bob Brown

'92 9000, 5 speed, 105k miles (stump puller)
'96 Impala SS, 30k miles
'96 Suburban 90k miles (wife's family car)


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