10-10-2012, 10:01 PM
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It's all about Diesel
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Originally Posted by freebeard
When I was in college, my parents had a Rambler 770 wagon. It had a beautiful paint color, not lavender, not fuschia, but something in that range.
It had the E-stick automatic clutch manual transmission. As soon as you touched the shift lever, the clutch actuated. There was a tiny, undersized fitting in the column shift linkage, and I snapped it off twice. My parents were un-pleased with me, until they broke it too.
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So, was that automatic clutch similar to the European Fitchel & Sachs Saxomat? That had a vacuum reservoir connected to an electric solenoid activated by a contact on the shift lever base which would activate a mechanical linkage which depressed the clutch, but there was also a centrifugal pressure plate to activate the clutch while idling.
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