XJ Almost DOA

[SPSERG]

I thought my Jeep was a gonner today... I was about 50 miles from home, stopped at a busy intersection. XJ died and a huge billow of white smoke came up through the hood vents. Tried to restart, lurching forward. Then tried to shift-NO GO, Oh my GOD this Puke-Goat tranny has locked up on me!!! Pushed in the clutch to try another restart, No Pedal!! Pumped it a few times, managed to restart and get it to a parking lot. The master cylinder was almost empty, and fluid on the ground. I managed to refill the MC, and drive home only to find bumper to bumper traffic on the bridges to the Cape. Somehow, with almost no pedal I made it home. Now I have to wait for a new line from NAPA to get it running again. Lucky to have made it home!!

[Eagle]

What let go, the line between the master cylinder and the slave? The same thing happened to me as I exited the MA Tpke at I-290 last autumn on my way to the NAC campout and trail ride in Maine. I drove it all the way from Worcester back to my home on the west side of New Haven w/o clutch. Not "fun," but it is possible.

[RichP]

I thought my Jeep was a gonner today... I was about 50 miles from home, stopped at a busy intersection. XJ died and a huge billow of white smoke came up through the hood vents. Tried to restart, lurching forward. Then tried to shift-NO GO, Oh my GOD this Puke-Goat tranny has locked up on me!!! Pushed in the clutch to try another restart, No Pedal!! Pumped it a few times, managed to restart and get it to a parking lot. The master cylinder was almost empty, and fluid on the ground. I managed to refill the MC, and drive home only to find bumper to bumper traffic on the bridges to the Cape. Somehow, with almost no pedal I made it home. Now I have to wait for a new line from NAPA to get it running again. Lucky to have made it home!!

And on a friday going out to the cape you expected .....what, no traffic...yea, right...the day I see that I'll go buy a lottery ticket. When we go up there on vacation we cross the canal on Thursday nite, late and go home on a tues...

[SPSERG]

Yes it was the line, I have to order another first thing Saturday. As far as the traffic goes... I have learned to live with it, and had I a working clutch, been fat dumb and happy sitting in traffic. Today, no such luck. So I sat in the old Jeep, pulling it into neutral and cursing at the people opposed to the bridge flyover. Hey Eagle, it just dawned on me: Is your avatar of the units assigned to theatre in Vietnam??

[Eagle]

Hey Eagle, it just dawned on me: Is your avatar of the units assigned to theatre in Vietnam??
Yes, it is. A couple of places sell a flag showing the units, and I just cribbed a pic of the flag from one of their web sites. My unit was the 4th Infantry (Ivy) Division.