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11-05-09, 04:23 PM

Do you mean gas smell as in a smell like household gas that you get in the cooker?

If you do, thats a similar (not by much but I can understand the assumption of it been gas) to the smell of a burning clutch. Its a distinctive smell, we used to get it all the time at the Go-Kart track I worked at when ppl double peddled, drives you nuts as a marshall.

I dont understnad how it would sqeel when disengaged though that bit seems odd. Had a clutch go on a Clio, best trick is to put it in a high gear and rev it hard while letting the clutch out, if it trys to pull away your clutch is fine and it was a fluke. If it screems at you then your clutch is on it way out/already gone.

11-05-09, 04:23 PM	#2
Owenski Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Clutch slip in first gear and a gas smell Do you mean gas smell as in a smell like household gas that you get in the cooker? If you do, thats a similar (not by much but I can understand the assumption of it been gas) to the smell of a burning clutch. Its a distinctive smell, we used to get it all the time at the Go-Kart track I worked at when ppl double peddled, drives you nuts as a marshall. I dont understnad how it would sqeel when disengaged though that bit seems odd. Had a clutch go on a Clio, best trick is to put it in a high gear and rev it hard while letting the clutch out, if it trys to pull away your clutch is fine and it was a fluke. If it screems at you then your clutch is on it way out/already gone.