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Originally Posted by H-Man
I wouldn't leave the clutch in. You have a bearing not designed for continuous duty called the throwout bearing holding the clutch disengaged, running like that will kill the bearing and require expensive transmission work. If you can't stop your car with the engine off in a timely fashion, I recommend that you invest in a vacuum pump from the salvage yard (apparently the turboed cars tended to have them,) plus you don't need to think about anything but stopping.
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I' ve been doing this for ages and have never needed a clutch replacement at all, never mind its bearing.
My parents managed to kill the clutch in just 90.000 km on their 1985 Honda Civic. I drove that car for another 200.000 km (130.000 miles) on the replaced clutch, and it was scrapped due to rust but in perfect mechanical order. I spent years of my life in that car, often engaging the clutch in bad traffic jams for more than half of the time.
Thinking of it, it is the one thing that bearing should be designed for to handle. But maybe that does not apply to all bearings, so bear with me on this one.
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