So a year and a half ago, when I bought my Ranger, I commented that the clutch felt a little soft. In the first year of ownership, I managed to gimp the clutch so badly that it smoked - twice. Then, last month, the clutch throw-out bearing started rattling and needed to be replaced.

But when I brought it in to Metzgers to have them look at it, they said "yes its the clutch bearing, and yes you need to replace it, and you should probably just do the whole clutch while we're in there." To which I agreed, but they couldn't do the repair right then because they needed to order the clutch kit and bearing, so I took the truck home with the intent to bring it back the following week. However, from the moment I left Metzgers with the truck, the auditory symptoms of broken clutch were gone. So I said screw the $800 repair - there's nothing apparently wrong, so I'll just keep driving it.

Well... last week the clutch started going bad in exponentially worse ways. First it got locked out of gear and I had to turn the truck off to get it to go into first. This happened at a stoplight so it was no big deal. A week later, it happened again. The following day, it happened three times. Always when I was stopped and in neutral, so no real hazard, but obviously becoming a problem.

Last Thursday, it started locking me in neutral *while I was driving at speed*. I had to coast to a stop on W. Jemez Rd. to get the damn thing into gear. I nursed the truck home and called Metzgers back to initiate the replacement of the clutch which was clearly now totally befukt.

They said I should bring it in this morning, which I did (without incident). They called this afternoon to tell me they hadn't ordered all the parts they needed yet so they can't do the repair until tomorrow. Eh??