I feel relieved!!!

[steved]

OK, so I stopped today to get fuel...

Sat idling for about 15 minutes while the guy with the PowerStroke got $105 worth of fuel...he must have been dry.

Pulled ahead and dumped $75 in mine, took about 10 minutes. Moved ahead, to get out of the way. Then I get ready to leave...

I normally start in third getting into highway traffic because the thing has the grunt and the gearing. So I pull out...nothing, barely moving...I'm redlined, clutch is out, and I'm barely moving...I yank fourth and same deal, redline and barely moving.

As I try to get a bite (at this point I think I have clutch issues), the engine starts to lug down and we start rolling like nothing ever happened?? I pull off in the next road, and ease through the gears...everything is normal????

I take some backroads home thinking the worst...so I limp along and decide I'm GOING to make it slip again. Place her in 5th, jacked the brakes and the go pedal at the same time...no slip???

Get home, power brake in both 1st and reverse (at idle, hold brakes and releasing the clutch)...spin the tires without even trying??? At this point the clutch is plenty HOT: hot enough to smell, not hot enough to smoke.

Crawl under the truck...I have the typical seepage from the back of the engine (looks like my dad's 99 with 260k and no issues), so I assume there is no leakage issues. I have 113k on the clock right now, so it isn't a new truck anymore...

I decide to take a drive and see what happened...go back to the station to retrace my steps. I had a hunch...and I find they had a fuel spill. I had left posi-marks for better than 300 feet!!! I rolled through their lot and sure enough, slippery enough I can get a little spin even rolling easy...

So now I'm relieved...no clutch issues! It makes you really paranoid when something like this happens.

Cooking the clutch seems to have made it grab better...almost wonder if I had a glazing issue??

Just thought someone would find this humorous and get a laugh out my stupidity...

steved