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Originally Posted by pelon
this no doubt was the cause of the failure. an old clutch abused like that is pretty sure to fail. use the shut off on the linkage. maybe the high torque in that situation warped or bend the input shaft to the tranny.
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Yea, I know I should have used the shutoff lever, but it was done in a panic and I was worried about the engine running away and thinking of horror stories of rods thrown through blocks and such.
I believe it was making the rattling noise before this happened, though it is hard for me to remember now. I seem to remember it has been happening since I got the car.
One other thing is that I had to re-learn to drive stick on this car (it had been a while), and I also taught my wife... I suppose all of that combined could be pretty hard on it.