[s-cars] My clutch pedal is overdesigned. What should I do?

[Aaron]

Damn
Sounds like my Avant may be next - Ill have to take a look under there.
Aaron

Robert Pastore wrote:

>Mike:
>
>That makes 3 of these failures -- you, me and Bill.   All in Avants. A
>coincidence?
>Bob
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Platt [mailto:mplatt911 at yahoo.com]
>Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 2:12 PM
>To: Scar
>Subject: [s-cars] My clutch pedal is overdesigned. What should I do?
>
>
>Well, my S6 avant left me stranded for the first time
>yesterday. I pushed the clutch pedal in and there she
>sat, 60 miles from home. After removing the lower dash
>I discovered that the threaded rod and clevis which
>connects the pedal to the clutch master cylinder
>snapped.
>I removed the cylinder from the car with the broken
>peices. I noticed that there is a clevis, a nut,
>another nut, a rubber bushing type device, then the
>cylinder. For the interim fix, I had the two nuts
>welded together thus putting it back together and
>replaced it in the car. Pressure bled the clutch and
>off I went.
>My question is. Do I need to replace the clutch
>cylinder to get the whole rod with the rubber bushing
>thingy? The clevis is fine. Just the connection
>between the clevis and bushing is broken. If I choose
>to be frugal...who thinks the setup I have created
>will be fine?
>Thanks
>Mike P.
>95.5 S6 avant
>75 911 Carrera Targa
>74 914 2.0
>
>__________________________________________________
>Do you Yahoo!?
>Yahoo! News - Today's headlines
>http://news.yahoo.com
>_______________________________________________
>S-CAR-List mailing list
>S-CAR-List at audifans.com
>http://www.audifans.com/mailman/listinfo/s-car-list
>_______________________________________________
>S-CAR-List mailing list
>S-CAR-List at audifans.com
>http://www.audifans.com/mailman/listinfo/s-car-list
>