"Nick Hull" wrote in message
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In article ,
Gunner wrote:

Warning!! Dangerous design flaw in the 2006 Jeep Wranglers!!



The 2006 six speed Jeep Wrangler has a very dangerous design flaw. New
for
the 2006 Jeep Wrangler is the six speed transmissions and what I have
recently learned the "hard way" is part of the redesign includes the
clutch
assembly. The clutch rod comes out of the floor board and attaches to
the
clutch pedal with a clip/attachment that bolts onto the clutch pedal.
The
problem here is as part of their new design the clip or attachment piece
is
made of "plastic" and I found that it can break very easily and disable
your
Jeep. ........

I have had clutch linkage failure in several vehicles. You can still
drive the vehicle. You can carefully shift between gears when the
vehicle is moving without a clutch, and you can start and stop in 1st
gear by turning the engine off or starting it in gear

This used to be true. The safety lockout on the clutch used to be on the
pedal and if you could push the pedal in you could start it in gear. They
moved the switch on several newer rigs and the linkage hase to move to start
now. Some older rigs even had a clutch lockout bypass switch that was a
momentary switch so you could start in gear. It is also something best
learned on a beater rather than a brand new cheep. Chrysler has a penchant
for making the LRU as big as possible .. like making the voltage regulator
for the alternator part of the main computer. a $20 part on most vehicles
becomes a $400 part and a weeks wait for replacement.