I was out driving my Duster today, the car seemed to be working great, no problems at all.

I got on the gas pretty hard in 1st and went to stab the clutch to shift to second and the clutch hit the floor and stayed there. The car stayed in 1st and no over-rev (car has EFI with fuel cut).

I drove the car home in 1st gear (about 2 miles) and jacked it up. At first, it looked like the fork had somehow come off the throw out bearing. Once I pulled the fork out, I found that the input shaft bearing retainer broke basically at the base of the machined section.

The car has a Centerforce dual friction clutch, 23 spline A-833, quicktime bellhousing, stock fork, and a pivot I had to modify when I put the bellhousing in. I've been driving the car for about 3 years (maybe 3000 miles or so) with this setup.

Any ideas on why this would break? I'd like to fix it for good. Never had any shifting problems and I did dial in the bellhousing when I installed it.

Thanks for any help!