[urq] RE: Disengaged 3B/Locker Clutch

[Martin Pajak]

Jon,

 

Turned out I had installed the clutch fork upside down. 

Apparently it's not an idiot proof design :-)

 

Oh well.. mark it down as a Bobo move..

 

Cheers

Martin Pajak

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1982 Audi Ur-quattro (50,000 mi) new project
1985 Audi Ur-quattro (212,000 km) Euro spec. import mit 3B ;o)
1987 Audi 4000s quattro (201,000 km) wintervagen

1990 Audi V8 quattro (365,000 km) pipe and slippers

 

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From: urquattro at comcast.net [mailto:urquattro at comcast.net] 
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 2:02 PM
To: martin at quattro.ca
Cc: urq at audifans.com
Subject: Disengaged 3B/Locker Clutch

 

Martin,

BTDT with Bill B. last summer on my 3B engine / early 4kq tranny combo. Used
all 3B clutch parts, except (I believe) for the TO bearing, which I think
needed to be a 4kq part. Scott Mockry of SJMAuto.com helps me get the parts
together for "special" projects like this; I can verify with him if it will
help.

Anywhoo...as for it being permanently disengaged...I'm pretty much stumped!
Seems like if anything it would be the other way around, since the pressure
plate is clamped onto the disc during assembly. 

 

The only things I can think of are:

 

1. That the TO bearing you used is stuck on the input shaft somehow (perhaps
the fork is oriented wrong and held it pushed out?) and "perma-dissed" the
splines on the pressure plate when you inserted the tranny. 

 

2. The slave cyl. overextended itself when unloaded and the piston is stuck
in the "out" position...This would be an easy one to check since you could
(hopefully without taking too much back apart), get to the retainer pin and
drive the slave back out and see if the clutch engages.

 

Either that or you forgot to re-connect the drive shafts. That would allow
the car to roll pretty freely, too :-)

 

Sorry I can't offer more, just opening up some dialogue on this. 

 

Best of Luck!

-Jon