DeTomaso Mailing List: February 00, Message #197

This afternoon I am dropping my car off at a local garage to try to look at my clutch problem. For those who don't remember the symptoms, in a nutshell it sounds like a potential problem with the springs, pressure plate, something like that. It is not the master or slave cylinder - those are functioning normally but the clutch feel is weird, and the car kind of shutters when I engage it...

I need to give the garage pretty explicit instructions, since they haven't worked on DeTomasos before. What do I tell them? What should they be looking for, what general procedure should I give them, and what tricks should they know about? I can tell them to pull the bellhousing after moving the A/C condensor out of the way, what do they do next? Should any competant mechanic know what to look for next? 

Thanks! 

Charlie McCall 
1972 DeTomaso Pantera Pre-L #3847
"Raising Pantera Awareness across Europe"