I hope not about 3,000 miles on a new clutch and release bearing would be almighty bad. There were no untoward noises, just a sudden inability to select all the gears where the gear-lever is pushed forward due to the loss of the horse shoe clip. It is possible that the inability to disengage the clutch put more force into the gear change cables which in turn caused the horse shoe clip to fail. However this doesn’t explain why I cannot get disengagement now. 

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