Clutch stuff -- Part deux

["Kurt Wesseling" <kurt.wesseling@nexusmgmt.com>]

Well, I still haven't replaced that clutch that many of you suggested I
should.  I keep thinking, "what if it's something else?" (hope-hope-hope)
You may recall I had a pulsating clutch pedal beginning about a month ago
and a kind of "loose change" rattling noise--but no slippage at all.  Still
doesn't slip.

The pulsing has inexplicably stopped, but the rattling has now graduated to
a high-pitched squeeeeeeeeal at the beginning  and end of the clutch pedal
range of travel.  The unrealistic part of me keeps hoping it's just some
kind of linkage problem.  The other, costs-a-lot-of-money part of me, says
the throw-out bearing has gone dry.

"Sure sounds like the kind of squeal a dry bearing makes," he whispered in a
voice that was at once sorrowful and discouraged.  8-p  Not much point in
replacing just the bearing, is there?

So, I need a few of you to tell me, "give it up, Kurt, the bearings hosed.
Replace the whole works"

Thanks,

--K
1989 200TQ
137k miles