Clutch Job: Input S. finally slips into pilot b...YEAH!!!

[L DC]

I'm very happy to report that the tranny's input shaft
in my '85 VW QSW, following your suggestions of
loosening engine bolts to tilt engine backwards along
with turning output shafts and crank shaft via 27mm
bolt, finally mated to the pilot bearing.

It was not that easy, my friend and I couldn’t get the
exact angle but about 1 1/2 hours later of doing many,
many angle variations on the tranny and engine jacks,
all of the sudden the input shaft just slipped right
in like a hot knife cutting through "butter."

I was very, very careful as to not force the tranny in
since I did not want to destroy yet another new pilot
bearing.  

After staring so many times at the pilot bearing
through the splinned clutch hole, I realized that the
input shaft must be in a straight line in relation to
both (clutch and pilot bearing) in order to slip in
with out much force other than the one needed to move
the tranny forward. 

Thank you all very much for your suggestions as I
could not have done the job without them.

-Regards,

LDC




--- Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> > Sunday, I tried and tried to make the tranny's
> input
> > shaft in my '85 VW QSW go through the pilot
> bearing
> > but was unsuccessful. 
> 
> > I set the pilot bearing in the back to the crank
> shaft
> > as deep as the old one. Looked very nice and
> straight.
> > 
> > I also aligned the clutch with its specific tool
> and
> > tightened pressure plate to torque specs and both
> > holes in the clutch and pilot bearing looked quite
> > aligned.
> > 
> > Tranny slid right in through the clutch serrated
> hole
> > nicely and then the tranny's bell housing stopped
> > about 3/4 to an inch away from the engine block,
> the
> > approximate length of the pilot bearing.
> 
> If you are at that point, and the spacing is the
> same all around (trans 
> to bell housing), you can insert 3 or so of the
> engine to tranny bolts 
> (probably longer ones in the wrong holes) and use
> them to gently pull 
> the two together, say a half turn on each bolt at a
> time once they are 
> snug.
> 
> If you do this while jacking the front of the engine
> to keep things 
> straight, you will probably find it starts moving
> together quite nicely 
> and steadily.  BTDT, by the way, on a clutch job
> that took way too long.
> 
> Glad you test-fitted the PB to the trans. input
> shaft.
> 
> -- 
> Huw Powell
> 
> http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi
> 
> http://www.humanthoughts.org/
> 


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