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Let them escorts you out...evictions take like 90 days in CA. I'm sorry to hear your plight but sounds like you got a plan. You can preasure wash it yourself, its just harder becasue its not over a pit or on a rack. Spray the clinging formula Gunk onto the trans and then drive it to the wash, the heat will assist in softening up the grime. A bad clutch isn't the worst thing that could happen to that old bus. The time to do maintenence is before it breaks. Sounds cliche but it's like a job, best time to look is when your employed that way you won't have to jump into the first job that bites, cause it may bite too, and suck. A worn clutch can be limped by not even using it to change gears: to upshift, you get off the gas and lean the shifter toward the next higher gear and allow it to drop in on its own schedule. It's easy on a small car and a motorcycle. A bus may be a little challenging but it's still just a 4sp. Not a split range 18 speed. Downshifting is a little harder as you have to pull it out of gear, then Rev the motor to sync the gears for the downshift rpm. Hardest thing to do will be to navigate first at a light. I broke a clutch cable in a subaru , no clutch at all, and had to turn the motor off at a light. When light turned green, i just jammed it in first and hit the starter until it chugged forward and finally started up. Speed shifting is probably how the guy tooled it around with a crippled clutch.
 
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If the clutch is completely failed, driving that bus without one might be impossible, as you'd have to start it up in gear. That would require a GOOD battery. I've driven several times without a clutch

One of my Roadrunners.......broke the clutch push rod and drove a few miles back home, just start it up in gear

Yamaha 650, rode up home some 50 miles and broke the cable got to ride it back again no clutch. Kick it out of gear before stopping, then start it up in gear

When I converted my 63 Chev to stick, I had no way of attaching the clutch pivot to the frame, so I drove it no clutch down to a fab shop and they welded it on. Finished putting the linkage together right there in their lot.

But a big heavy truck/ bus? THAT might be tough starting up. A hill would help LOL
 
Let them escorts you out...evictions take like 90 days in CA. I'm sorry to hear your plight but sounds like you got a plan. You can preasure wash it yourself, its just harder becasue its not over a pit or on a rack. Spray the clinging formula Gunk onto the trans and then drive it to the wash, the heat will assist in softening up the grime. A bad clutch isn't the worst thing that could happen to that old bus. The time to do maintenence is before it breaks. Sounds cliche but it's like a job, best time to look is when your employed that way you won't have to jump into the first job that bites, cause it may bite too, and suck. A worn clutch can be limped by not even using it to change gears: to upshift, you get off the gas and lean the shifter toward the next higher gear and allow it to drop in on its own schedule. It's easy on a small car and a motorcycle. A bus may be a little challenging but it's still just a 4sp. Not a split range 18 speed. Downshifting is a little harder as you have to pull it out of gear, then Rev the motor to sync the gears for the downshift rpm. Hardest thing to do will be to navigate first at a light. I broke a clutch cable in a subaru , no clutch at all, and had to turn the motor off at a light. When light turned green, i just jammed it in first and hit the starter until it chugged forward and finally started up. Speed shifting is probably how the guy tooled it around with a crippled clutch.
That is exactly how he drove it I got the clutch to start working and my dad drove it to my fiance'so grandmas so I'll have it worked on there and hopefully can have it out of her yard by the end of july. But right before we got the the clutch stopped working agian my dad thinks there is air in there. It wasn't working well but it was at least doing something.
 
If the clutch is completely failed, driving that bus without one might be impossible, as you'd have to start it up in gear. That would require a GOOD battery. I've driven several times without a clutch

One of my Roadrunners.......broke the clutch push rod and drove a few miles back home, just start it up in gear

Yamaha 650, rode up home some 50 miles and broke the cable got to ride it back again no clutch. Kick it out of gear before stopping, then start it up in gear

When I converted my 63 Chev to stick, I had no way of attaching the clutch pivot to the frame, so I drove it no clutch down to a fab shop and they welded it on. Finished putting the linkage together right there in their lot.

But a big heavy truck/ bus? THAT might be tough starting up. A hill would help LOL
Well it always starts in neutral and yeah in gear it just starts going the guy drove it like 150 miles to bring it to me with out the clutch he just speed shifted.
 
So you have the pedal going to the floor now?
Not anymore it stopped working as it was drivingreat my dad said it's like it got air in the system agian maybe there's a leak. I don't know I'm confused. It wasn't really going all the way to the floor but it was at least making the clutch do a little bit to make it a little easier to shift.
 
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