Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums Modifications Transaxle Help!!!

If it helps with the diagnosis, I had posted a while back that there was a clicking or ticking sound coming from under the car a week or so after the clutch/flywheel/lsd was installed that would disappear when the clutch pedal was depressed. There did not seem to be any problems with the car, so I let it lie. The only other change that I notice is that the clutch pedal doesn't seem to have the play at the top it had before the failure.

Would greasy fingerprints cause sudden failure 4,000 miles into a new clutch? I mean total failure, as in the clutch seeming to disappear from the car. I've had clutches fail, and there was always some sort of sign. This happened at highway speed. One moment the car was fine, the next the engine was racing and there was no power at all going to the wheels. Now if I turn the engine over it sounds normal, clicking is gone. But when I put it into gear, the clutch doesn't catch at all. Zero. On almost level ground I can put it into first and it will roll backwards with even the slightest grade. Feels different from a clutch failure if you know what I mean..

Any chance it could be the master or slave cylinder or a clogged line. I know I'm clutching at straws, but I'm trying to be an optimist.