The clutchshoes, arent melted, when i took the clutch bell off, the three shoes, are still there, with their respective springs, so, yeah the clutch bearing could be bad hunh, if its not freespinning, i guess that would be it, wow, asimple few dollar repair there, I am sure i have an extra bearing of that size. at 1st i was actually hoping that the clutch shoes were melted at least It would have let me known exactly what was wrong, but it never occured to me that the bearing could be be seized. but after thinking about it, it would be thank you for such a quick reply, I should have posted this questions months ago. what about the buggy going into reverse? can the engine run, spinning the opposite way