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[FROSTY]

I got a call this morning from my ex.Shes got semi permanant use of my tow car.
"um tony this $%$%$ car doesn't go"
Oh really--um dya mean it wont start?
"no NO it starts -I was driving it -now its doesn't go"
Could ya be a tadd more precise.?
"it makes all the engine noises but it doesn't go anywhere"
Have you put it into gear?
"yes but its not moving" :bye:
Did you hear any FUNNY NOISES ?
"No but its been needing a lot more accelerator lately to go anywhere"
"on the motorway the engines been really loud at 100km/h" :wacko:

Yep shes fried the clutch and it aint going anywhere.
Guess what I'm gonna be doing on sunday
No trip to Welly for me now :mad: :mad: :mad:

[James Deuce]

Hmmm - Chicks and clutches. Bad mix that.

Bummer mate, I was really looking forward to meeting you, ya reprobate.

[Blakamin]

Yep shes fried the clutch and it aint going anywhere.
Guess what I'm gonna be doing on sunday
No trip to Welly for me now :mad: :mad: :mad:

Oh man, that blows! :mad:

[Artifice]

like forget to disengage the hand brake. then wonder why its going so poorly.

[toads]

Hmmm - Chicks and clutches. Bad mix that.

Bummer mate, I was really looking forward to meeting you, ya reprobate.

Just exactly what do you mean by that????, as far as I'm aware, vehicles are totally non-discriminatory when it comes to clutches wearing out and needing replacing, could just have easily have happened to a bloke, back luck frosty, bloody murphy's law!!, can't ya borrow a vehicle to tow the trailer????

[dhunt]

like forget to disengage the hand brake. then wonder why its going so poorly.Nah they still go just you get a burnt rubber smell and and you have to use the clutch a bit more to get going and have better engine braking :)

David

[James Deuce]

Just exactly what do you mean by that????, as far as I'm aware, vehicles are totally non-discriminatory when it comes to clutches wearing out and needing replacing, could just have easily have happened to a bloke, back luck frosty, bloody murphy's law!!, can't ya borrow a vehicle to tow the trailer????
Admittedly not ALL chicks, but in my experience, everyone from my grandmother, to my wife's grandmother, to my wife, to the previous two girlfriends to my wife, have all destroyed clutches in either my car, their car, or both in rapid order compared to my own consumption. Heather's grandmother was particularly bad, in that should dial in the revs she felt she should have, usually about 5500-600rpm and change into top as quickly as possible while moderating speed with the left pedal. Just before she gave up driving she went through 4 clutches in 2 months.

Edit for those who think I'm a clueless mysoginist: 3 months as a driving instructor (car) taught me that it is almost impossible to teach clutch control to anyone over 40 regardless of gender. It is also difficult for older people with little or no experience of driving to understand they need to steer out of a corner as well as into it. I have no idea why those two points appear to be truisms. However the fact remains that most (not ALL - like I already said) women are horrendously mechanically unsympathetic. My mantra when teaching women was, "The clutch pedal is not a footrest. The clutch pedal is not a foot rest.....".

toads - most blokes, let alone most women wouldn't have a clue about thrust bearings, except to make a crude joke about the word thrust and then snigger and grunt. And people who subscribe to this site are largely excluded from the mechanically unsympathetic list by dint of the fact that mistreating your bike can kill you, and you either learn the hard way (through experience) or the easy way (by listening to old farts - who aren't ALWAYS right btw). Having to be "PC" on an "interest" site is tiresome, and I would have thought by now that most people know that a good 90% of what I write is in good humour. I also thought folks'd get the fact that I am more Michael Moore than Brian Tamaki - a fat, shambling trouble maker with good intentions. Hell, here I come!

[riffer]

I must be odd one out. My wife is a better DRIVER than I am. :mellow:

[Deano]

I remember an elderly lady in a carpark revving the absolute snot out of a mini as she pulled away in first gear. I think she may have been half deaf and couldn't hear the engines screams for help. A tachometer would have helped somewhat.

[Cajun]

I must be odd one out. My wife is a better DRIVER than I am. :mellow:

thats the same for me, but i must say i only drive a car once or twice a month and she drives every day

[toads]

I must be odd one out. My wife is a better DRIVER than I am. :mellow:

Congratulations, I bet that you are the first guy to ever post something like that on the net YOU DA MAN!!!
Hey Jim, Pete's grandfather used to ride the clutch something shocking and needed a new clutch with nearly every service!! LOL, I think it's an old person thing, I am very mechanically aware and wouldn't let any thrust bearing noise, or clutch slipping get away on me, I'd be ordering a new clutch kit pronto, it's a shame frosty wasn't aware of it earlier, then he could have got it fixed before hand so it wouldn't bugger up his plans, hopefully someone can help him out though.

[Cajun]

Congratulations, I bet that you are the first guy to ever post something like that on the net YOU DA MAN!!!
Hey Jim, Pete's grandfather used to ride the clutch something shocking and needed a new clutch with nearly every service!! LOL, I think it's an old person thing, I am very mechanically aware and wouldn't let any thrust bearing noise, or clutch slipping get away on me, I'd be ordering a new clutch kit pronto, it's a shame frosty wasn't aware of it earlier, then he could have got it fixed before hand so it wouldn't bugger up his plans, hopefully someone can help him out though.


yeah i just sent him a pm i might be able to get his bike back as far as tauranga, next weekend make wife fly down and she ride my bike back i ride the zxr750 back

[toads]

yeah i just sent him a pm i might be able to get his bike back as far as tauranga, next weekend make wife fly down and she ride my bike back i ride the zxr750 back

that sounds like a good scheme.

[Firefight]

ah well I must be bloody lucky then cause not only does Mrs F/F drive a car okay,she also gets less tickets than me, and over the years she has learned how to hook up my bike recovery trailer, load up broken smashed motox bikes and there dumb arse riders, she can reverse trailers into tight driveways, she could drive my old heap of shit bike transport van that I manged to dump on Motoracer. :whistle: , she can change a tyre,
check the oil dipper thing, and has even driven a tractor when needed.

So yeah I must be lucky.. 21 years no burned out clutches

F/F :wacko:

[Hitcher]

I must be odd one out. My wife is a better DRIVER than I am. :mellow:
The best driver I have ever met is my Mum. She has all of her heavy vehicle licenses as when Dad taught her to drive he only owned a truck.

On the farm we always used to get a truck-and-trailer load of superphosphate delivered and spread it ourselves. The trucking company either came and reclaimed the rig once we were done with it or we delivered it back to them. When I was about 16 we got a call one day in the late afternoon asking if the truck could be delivered back to the yard in Stratford before 5:00pm. Dad had to milk and I only had a car licence, so Mum got to drive the truck. I took the car so as to retrieve her and arrived in the trucking company's yard about five minutes or so before Mum arrived. To this day I can still see the look on some hard-bitten truckers' faces, after having reversed the trailer into its park, my Mum complete with sensible skirt and shoes, twin-set and pearls hops down out of the cab. Priceless!

[Cajun]

The best driver I have ever met is my Mum. She has all of her heavy vehicle licenses as when Dad taught her to drive he only owned a truck.

On the farm we always used to get a truck-and-trailer load of superphosphate delivered and spread it ourselves. The trucking company either came and reclaimed the rig once we were done with it or we delivered it back to them. When I was about 16 we got a call one day in the late afternoon asking if the truck could be delivered back to the yard in Stratford before 5:00pm. Dad had to milk and I only had a car licence, so Mum got to drive the truck. I took the car so as to retrieve her and arrived in the trucking company's yard about five minutes or so before Mum arrived. To this day I can still see the look on some hard-bitten truckers' faces, after having reversed the trailer into its park, my Mum complete with sensible skirt and shoes, twin-set and pearls hops down out of the cab. Priceless!

that would be classic to watch

[vifferman]

The best driver I have ever met is my Mum. ... To this day I can still see the look on some hard-bitten truckers' faces, after having reversed the trailer into its park, my Mum complete with sensible skirt and shoes, twin-set and pearls hops down out of the cab. Priceless!I can just see that!:killingme

I'm a better driver than any women I know, but I must confess to being hard on the clutches of all vehicles I ride/drive, and eventually every car or bike I own starts to have a grumbly transmission and/or clutch. I've never actually burnt one out, but I tend to slip the clutch a bit in the interests of smoothness. This is because my Dad taught me to drive, and he was a scary driving instructor. In fact, he was a scary, grumpy person most of the time! He drilled into me the importance of smooth gearchanges and generally smooth driving.
I've never done dumb things like I've seen some people do - using the clutch as a parking brake on a hill! However, I have abused the clutch to demonstrate the point of clutch and throttle control to my sons when they were learning to drive, by starting from a standstill in 4th or 5th gear...

My wife and I are even on the ticket front, with two speeding tickets each (I also had a ticket for no mirror on my Elsinore, back in 1977.) However, my speeding tickets date back to 1975 or thereabouts, whereas hers are both from 1998 or 1999.

[marty]

i bought a '84 bluebird wagon with a slipping clutch, and drove it for another 20000kms before it finally got too much to bear. it would slip when i was driving up the kaimais, and sometimes i would be down to 1st gear. lazy i know. funny thing was, i did the clutch, then sold it! i didn't do a clutch in my L300 4x4, but i completely nuked the gearbox - the main shaft bearing disintegrated while towing a big trailer full of BMX bikes to taupo. it still drove, but i couldn't change gear. i drove it from tirau to taupo in 5th (about 100kms - uphill all the way), finally coming to a stop at the woolworths roundabout, locked up in gear hard. had to be towed with my foot on the clutch to the BMX track. the back of the van, and the trailer, were covered in black burnt txmission oil. best thing was, only $600 to fix - new bearings, 2 synchros, fresh oil. i only did about 1000kms more in it, then i sold it....
that van was the best 4x4 i have ever owned - 2.4i engine, full hand made free flow exhaust, k&n filter, rev to redline, easy 100mph, powerslides in 2wd just a feather of accellerator away, 4wd drifting in the gravel/grass. all carrying 7 adults in a club seating arrangement :)

[Motu]

Clutches are fast disapearing from the scene for cars,our clutch jobs are now months apart and not a weekly occourance like they used to be.Still amases me that people can drive them to a standstill without thinking anything is is wrong - it just stopped! It's very seldom they let go without a few weeks of warning.All good drivers in our family - but one day recently the wife came in saying she thought something might be wrong with the Diamante's steering....I had a look and found the power steering belt gone.She seemed happy to drive it like that,but found it hard to park.

[James Deuce]

Clutches are fast disapearing from the scene for cars,our clutch jobs are now months apart and not a weekly occourance like they used to be.Still amases me that people can drive them to a standstill without thinking anything is is wrong - it just stopped! It's very seldom they let go without a few weeks of warning.All good drivers in our family - but one day recently the wife came in saying she thought something might be wrong with the Diamante's steering....I had a look and found the power steering belt gone.She seemed happy to drive it like that,but found it hard to park.

My wife did something similar. We had the Galant serviced and the mechanic didn't put the cap back on the power steering reservoir properly. I noticed she was "glowing" (sweating like a pig) trying to park the car one day, and she said, "It's been like this for ages. It's nearly as hard to park as the Fiat" (no power steering).

[FROSTY]

sorry to all females here -I was just a touch pissed off.
Good news -the car may be fixed by saturday lunchtime
Bad news I had to pay someone to do it.
More bad news It cost $450.00 --Turns out the 2.8 laurel has like a truck clutch--twice the price of a normal clutch kit.

[Blakamin]

sorry to all females here -I was just a touch pissed off.
Good news -the car may be fixed by saturday lunchtime
Bad news I had to pay someone to do it.
More bad news It cost $450.00 --Turns out the 2.8 laurel has like a truck clutch--twice the price of a normal clutch kit.

Holy snapping duck shit batman!

What a price!

so you still coming down?

[Mongoose]

I can just see that!:killingme

I'm a better driver than any women I know, .

As spoken by a man that obviously does not know many women or lives a dangerous life. Either a brave call or a stooooopid call :lol:

[Cajun]

sorry to all females here -I was just a touch pissed off.
Good news -the car may be fixed by saturday lunchtime
Bad news I had to pay someone to do it.
More bad news It cost $450.00 --Turns out the 2.8 laurel has like a truck clutch--twice the price of a normal clutch kit.

sweet xj see ta down there then

[Hooks]

Never done a clutch ..... worn out one wife though ..... :killingme

[Motu]

More bad news It cost $450.00 --Turns out the 2.8 laurel has like a truck clutch--twice the price of a normal clutch kit.

These Iranian mechanics are cheap eh! Just got a 2.8 Laurel diesel (AUTO!)going and drove it for the first time last night,this one will be for my daughter.She's been driving my cars for the last 4 yrs,she will pay for this one,it will go in her name and she will pay for rego,WoFs and repairs - say hello to the real world girl! It's a 1993,a nice luxury car for an 18 yr old,down to Waiuku tonight for a test run.

[badlieutenant]

might have angered a few ppl with the discrimatory remarks buddy :D its not just chicks that have no idea, its alot of ppl. I had an argument at work about wether or not diesels have spark plug!!!! in the end I bet the lot of them and waited for a delivery truck to arrive (im a builder). and it goes on........told my boss, " your exhaust has a leak", you could hear it.........8 months later, boss says " my exhaust thingy is leaking". Its like that thing called common sense, its not very common at all.
Do you have to fix it? can it wait ? she is your ex, emphasis on EX. :mellow:

[toads]

sorry to all females here -I was just a touch pissed off.
Good news -the car may be fixed by saturday lunchtime
Bad news I had to pay someone to do it.
More bad news It cost $450.00 --Turns out the 2.8 laurel has like a truck clutch--twice the price of a normal clutch kit.

Not at all offended, just a little reminder that not all of the posters here are blokes, I'm very pleased your car should be sorted for by the weekend, dreadful price though, my daughter who works for nissan parts managed to get us a good price on the last clutch kit we bought ( about 2 months ago) for her sisters car, cost only 1/4 of the price repco could do it for! It cost around $150, but the bad news was, it took Pete and I nearly 2 complete days to do the job, it was a right mongrel.

[Ms Piggy]

Hmmm - Chicks and clutches. Bad mix that.

Bummer mate, I was really looking forward to meeting you, ya reprobate.
Yes Jim - I'm with Toads on this one...I take exception to your comment. <_< Possibly you should say "ALl the women you have known have been hopeless with clutches" sheesh :blah:

[Ms Piggy]

That is a bugger though Tony! Sorry we won't get to meet ya, another time!

Bloody expensive too! :mellow:

[James Deuce]

Yes Jim - I'm with Toads on this one...I take exception to your comment. <_< Possibly you should say "ALl the women you have known have been hopeless with clutches" sheesh :blah:


You should probably read all the posts before flapping one's gums.

:calm:

[FROSTY]

ducking for cover here. I was just pisssed she diddn't bother telling me.
Um whoever asked--she has semi permanant use of my tow car.
Its one of those daddy things-Its a pretty solid chunk of iron for my kids to be carted around in.
Besides which -she might be my ex wife but she's still one of my best freinds.

[FROSTY]

well guys the final nail went into the coffin for my wellington trip.
It seems the towwagon wont be ready in time .
Theres a couple of other things hapened to stop me too.
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

I'm totally gutted

[riffer]

well guys the final nail went into the coffin for my wellington trip.
It seems the towwagon wont be ready in time .
Theres a couple of other things hapened to stop me too.
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

I'm totally gutted
Sorry to hear that Tony. Hopefully we will see you next weekend instead :)

[Cajun]

Sorry to hear that Tony. Hopefully we will see you next weekend instead :)

Bugger if i know sooner i wouldn't have had my tires changed and i would have been ride it up some of the way for you. But getting wifes bike all sorted for her to ride down now

[FROSTY]

Sorry to hear that Tony. Hopefully we will see you next weekend instead :)
No mate --thats part of the problem--next weekend is first round of the club series. -Ill be racing the 400

[KATWYN]

-she might be my ex wife but she's still one of my best freinds.

Ex wife..
Hmmm how does that work? Isnt being best freinds the key ingredient?

[Joni]

Ex wife..
Hmmm how does that work? Isnt being best freinds the key ingredient?

I like that Katwyn..... and second that question!!! Tony???

[FROSTY]

Ex wife..
Hmmm how does that work? Isnt being best freinds the key ingredient?
Omgosh -You need me to explain ?
Its easy really -we are both parents to baby bikie and both love him very much. We made the decision we would coparent him. We both pretty quickly realised how important us being freinds was to him.
Besides which -- I happen to like her

[James Deuce]

Next time Frosty.

We'll miss you mate.

We will stop and have a quiet snigger when we think of you though. Oh, and a beer somewhere quiet too. :shifty: :apint:

[gav]

Isnt this the reason God invented Automatics?

[jrandom]

Isnt this the reason God invented Automatics?

Believe me. Clutches are a walk in the park, compared with what auto tranny specialists put you through to get one going again.

The smell of frying plates should be seen as a blessed reminder that whatever's happening, it's not going to cost $3,000 to fix.

[jrandom]

Oh yeah, Frosty, why don't you just borrow that Falcon off your yard for the weekend?

[KATWYN]

Omgosh -You need me to explain ?
realised how important us being freinds was to him.


Ohh of course, silly me. You do it for him.

Thats nice for him I can imagine

BTW, I know you retracted the heading of this thread, only
that kinda sends a message of a certain patronising intolerance
of woman. - it was offensive

Anyway its none of my Business, sorry I mentioned it (my 1st
question that is)

[Ms Piggy]

You should probably read all the posts before flapping one's gums.

:calm:
I did but I'm still entitled to express my dissapointment about your initial post. It's just very unlike you to make gross generalisations. Yes I see you explained yourself far more clearly but your initial comment is still sexist. :bleh:

[FROSTY]

Ohh of course, silly me. You do it for him.

Thats nice for him I can imagine

BTW, I know you retracted the heading of this thread, only
that kinda sends a message of a certain patronising intolerance
of woman. - it was offensive

Anyway its none of my Business, sorry I mentioned it (my 1st
question that is)
Kat--no need to say sorry -It was a bloody patronising thing to post.-I was REALLY pissed off at the time -anybody that knows me knows that aint my attitude. -no offence meant

[NC]

Hmmm - Chicks and clutches. Bad mix that.

Bummer mate, I was really looking forward to meeting you, ya reprobate.


:weep: I can drive anything! You don't even need a clutch :(

[texmo]

Another reason why women and cars dont mix.....

[KATWYN]

Kat--no need to say sorry -It was a bloody patronising thing to post.-I was REALLY pissed off at the time -anybody that knows me knows that aint my attitude. -no offence meant

No probs, I was just having a Germaine Greer moment. :blah:

[NC]

Another reason why women and cars dont mix.....

Nothing wrong with that paking :shit:

[texmo]

Other than the fact that you cant move the car........
Still men can do it to.....

[FROSTY]

I found a way to get to wellington--and all was good . Right till lock up time at the yard. A person had taken a car parked on the roadside for a drive
They still had the keys--making matters worse they were on their way to Whangarei.--with MY keys
bloody hell Im never gonna get down there :doh:

[riffer]

*sigh*

------

[speedpro]

Current wife drove her old Sigma till it stopped after the waterpump seal let all the water out. It started making a noise so she turned the radio up. Then it slowed down so she did ease up a little. Finally it just slowed till it stopped at about which time she noticed that the temp gauge was pinned in the red and there was a cooking/burny smell. Smoke came out from the bonnet which resulted in a panicky call on the mobile. It got so hot the plugs turned a nice goldy sort of colour.
Previous wife had a reasonable attempt at doing the shims on her bike.
Women - they're all different.

I've met guys who had no idea beyond turning the key to make it go. Mind you I'm reasonably sure they were all 'gay' :whistle:

[texmo]

Nothing wrong with that paking :shit:
what about this parking?

[texmo]

Why stop at cars?

[Posh Tourer :P]

I think the name of that boat is apt. Not only is it "Temporary Insanity", it is also "II" - I wonder what happened to "I"

[texmo]

I would rather be in that boat rather than this car...........

[toads]

I found a way to get to wellington--and all was good . Right till lock up time at the yard. A person had taken a car parked on the roadside for a drive
They still had the keys--making matters worse they were on their way to Whangarei.--with MY keys
bloody hell Im never gonna get down there :doh:

Heck Frosty ole Murphy is fair having a go at you!!, I hope you had a good weekend despite things not going AT ALL to plan. cheers

[FROSTY]

ahh fuggit -I ended up selling 4 cars last weekend so it was all good I spose.
Now pleeeeze lets get mella yella finished.

[texmo]

How come you sell cars frosty if bikes are your passaion

[riffer]

How come you sell cars frosty if bikes are your passaion
If Frosty's anything like me, its because it pays the bills. Not all of us are lucky enough to have our passion as our source of income. :mellow: