Q: Hard to shift, shaky clutch, started smoking
I was driving under 40 and all of the sudden my clutch started shaking really bad and it became really hard to shift into and out of gears. When I tried to shift in, it would grind more often and when I stopped about a mile later I found out that smoke was coming from underneath my hood. The smoke is coming from something that connects to the bottom right of my engine. Is my clutch out? Or is something else wrong with it?
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