Un-sticking a clutch/flywheel?

In reply to Schmidlap :

Bomp Bomp......Chick, chicka!

Crackers said:

Of course now that it's been stuck once, it will most likely do it again. So unless it never gets put in a situation where you don't have space to use questionable release methods it should probably come apart and have the offending bits replaced or media blasted/acid washed. 

YMMV

 

The good thing is that I'm just babysitting the car until the owner gets settled. If I can store it inside and drive it once a week he'll be thrilled over it sitting on a trailer in my yard for the next four months. And I get the Miata ownership experience without owning one.  

Just took Deucekid#1 for a ride and she's in love. Headed straight to Craigslist. 

In that case, it probably needs to be thoroughly heat cycled several times. 

Im late but i've had this happen multiple times and always fixed it by starting it in gear and WOT'ing it off and on to shock load it. 

I was in the Houston flood.  My pickup truck sat in water right up to the bottom of the transmission pan for days.  Fortunately no water got inside the cab or into the clutch.  

Anyway the calipers were rusted worst than I have ever seen outside a junk yard.     When the water went down and I got around to starting it the brakes were so frozen the truck would not move.   The rear drums were also frozen. 

A few tire spinning moments later it all broke free.  First the rear drums and, with a little more effort, the front disks.  

Drove around the block riding the brakes and presto, shiny rotors like it never happened.