Date:         Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:03:00 -0500
Reply-To:     Mike S <mikes@FLATSURFACE.COM>
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From:         Mike S <mikes@FLATSURFACE.COM>
Subject:      Re: Have you ever broken a clutch by push starting a vehicle?
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At 11:23 AM 11/25/2007, ***************** wrote...
>Sorry to have to disagree,  but i've done it....
>>If so you blew up the clutch
>>disc from cerntrifical force... Ask me how I know this...

There's the disconnect. The damage you described was caused by too much
torque (rotational force) on the clutch friction plate. It was not from
centrifugal or centripetal force.

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