slipping clutch on 72 Eagle 05

[ronnie32567]

Will it ever end!!!  After fixing the parking brake, I decided to take her out for a little spin bout 5 miles or so, found a place to turn around and started back. I started noticing that the engine was revving pretty good but I wasn't going very fast. By the time I got back home it was at a crawl, when I stopped I could barely take off again even with the engine wound up. The clutch has to be slipping but the wierd thing is I can still change gears just fine, even from nuetral goes in gear perfect. Every clutch I've ever seen that was slipping you could'nt change gears without grinding the teeth off the gears. I work on all my own equipment, trucks, farm tractors, bulldozers ect. but this bus has just about got me whipped. Any suggestions on the clutch problem?

[gus]

If it is a dry clutch you would be able to smell it three blocks away if it were slipping.

[ronnie32567]

yea its a dry clutch and you can smell it just a little, I had the engine running against the govenor for awhile, the clutch would be burned to toast and smoking like a tar kettle. When I started slowly just above an idle the bus would move somewhat ok, but when I tried to accelerate the slower the bus moved. The manual says that there is an air assisted cylinder to help depress clutch with less effort. As many problems as I've had with the air is it possible that this air cylinder is only letting the clutch partially engage?

[Busted Knuckle]

Will it ever end!!!                                                                                  

NO! But welcome to the wonderful world of bus ownership!
 BK  

[artvonne]

  Is it possible something is hanging up when its released? IOW, could it be fully disengaging when you push the pedal in, but not fully engaging when you let it out due to some interference? If it was working fine, and suddenly wasn't, I would look for something hanging up somewhere. Clutches dont generally stop working suddenly, and when they do, as you say it would no longer fully disengage. And as stated, if it suddenly started slipping and you drove that far, it would smoke something awful.

  Heres to hoping for the simple fix.

[luvrbus]

Ronnie, check the air assist if it has the original clutch it will be a pull type,most have been replaced with the cheaper mushroom push type clutch over the years

good luck

[Catskinner!]

Remove the inspection plate on the bottom of the
bell housing and you can see if the pressure plate
is releasing.  You can also see if the clutch disc is
burned up .

Catskinner!
Sonnie gray
72 0/5 Eagle 3406 Cat
Pottsboro, Texas

[luvrbus]

Yea Sonnie it setting so long it probably threw the lining off the disk,I went to move my 05 and it threw the lining before it even moved another project 
I am going back with mushroom type (1/2 the price) just waiting on you now for help lol

good luck

[Bob Gilbert]

Check to see that you have free play at the clutch fingers if so it is toast. Hay Cliff if I knew three days ago I could have brought you a like new button clutch with p-plate. Bob

[ronnie32567]

where is the best place to buy the mushroom type clutch. Didn't get a chance to crawl under the bus to check clutch condition, will do 1rst thing tomorrow. thanks to everyone for all the good advice

[luvrbus]

Any truck or friction supply house Eagle uses the standard bell housing and flywheel like a truck ask on the Eagles board someone will have the number or it will be in the tech section www.eaglesinternational.net

I believe there is a parts books on file there that can be sent to you by email I know there is one for a model 01

good luck

[ronnie32567]

Well I've crawled under the Eagle numerous times tryin to figure out the clutch prob. It finally dawned on me that there was a short L shaped lever on the side of the bell housing right next to the linkage lever, this short lever has a bolt going through it that rests on the longer linkage lever. So I figured this must be an adjustment screw. I unscrewed the bolt and VIOLA the clutch worked just fine, Learn somethin new every day since becoming a certified BUSNUT.

[chev49]

Now charge yourself $257. for the repair work...