Re: Re: 1955 11C Traction Avant Commerciale New Members Car

[Anonymous]

Hi
I have experienced this after changing my antifreeze a few years ago, and spilling coolant all over the gearbox. The next time I came to use the car a couple of weeks later, the clutch was stuck. There is a previous post on ways to free this off, if you do a search on the forum.
The CTA website also recommends the following:

‘Take the car out of the garage.

Open the two hoods.

With a water hose spraying water onto the clutch down by the gear selector tower. Keep this up for a good while.

Let it stand for a while … about 15 minutes.

Water the clutch again …

Now you can try to start the engine in gear & clutch pedal depressed.

If it starts as it means that the connection disconnected and there one can easily conclude by

to release the clutch pedal gently.

If it does not succeed watering the clutch again …

NOTE: if this method is used and the connection comes off, it’s very important to

Warm up the engine and clutch properly so that all the water centrifuge / heat away from

lamella or it may occur again.

The best is to take a real ride with the car and use the clutch properly.

If you want to reduce the risk clutch stuck again in the future so you can face

Winter arrangement to cut a piece of wood that is just the right length so that you can put it between the

trampled the clutch pedal and the lower edge of the dashboard. This will prevent the lamella to

be hard pressed between the flywheel and clutch.’

I managed to free mine by starting up in gear with the clutch depressed and it freed immediately. You may have to resort to the above if the car has been left for a long time and everything is well and truly seized. If you use the above method then it is obviously essential that you dry everything out by at least running the engine and, if a run is out of the question, then wedge the pedal down as suggested.