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Originally Posted by humfrz
My take is that if the material on the clutch disk is burnt off or "glazed" to the point it would no longer create friction between the pressure plate and flywheel ...... it won't transmit the torque coming from the engine going to the transmission.
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Clutches fade when overheated, just like brakes. They are inevitably quite smelly/smokey at this point. In a 200 hp sort of car with an OEM street clutch, a couple of seconds of slipping clutch at full throttle will do it.
But I've never heard of a clutch that faded (& subsequently recovered) so badly it wouldn't engage at all. Usually if they get to the point that they won't make the car go, they are done. OP's experience is a bit mysterious.