yea i have a few savages...but any way yea your pretty much right ,when the srpings wear down they dont pull the shoe back and they grab on to the clutch bell and when u try and stop it is trying to go and then when u come to a stop the shoe catchs the cutch bell and stops the flywheel...oh and 1 more thing the shoe srping can also break from stress and cause the same thing[8D]