[Vwdiesel] Clutch Noise Problem

[Erik Lane]

oops, my bad.

your post really shocked me. so i thought back and
realized that i've never actually had an engine and
tranny apart from a jetta or rabbit. they're just too
darned reliable! :) took one out of my sister's
wrecked rabbit, but that's still in one piece hooked
to the tranny and sitting in the garage waiting for me
to need it. the only vw engines i've had apart from a
tranny to look at is my dad's vanagon and a dasher
that i used as a donor car. and they were both normal
as far as the release fork, i think. wouldn't swear to
the dasher, tho.

anyway, sorry for my bad info. i went out just to
double check, and yup, i was very wrong. still sounds
to me like a release bearing from your description,
but heck, i didn't even know the setup in what is one
of my favorite cars of all time, so my diagnosis might
also be that wrong.

thanks for the education!
erik

--- LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:
> anyway, what you're describing sounds like a release
> bearing that is starting to go bad. that bearing is
> what sits on the release fork and actually depresses
> the fingers on the clutch pressure plate.
> 
>   Well, on a "regular" car it's that way.  It
> functions the same way on these
>  but it's a bit different.  The release bearing is
> clear in the other end of 
> the 
> tranny and uses a pushrod to push on the release
> plate, which pushes the 
> fingers of the pressure plate, releasing the clutch.
>  
>   First guess is the bearing except these don't go
> bad terribly often. The 
> pushrods do tend to wear flat especially if the old
> release plate's hardened 
> push point was loose or worn.  Check both ends of
> the pushrod as well 
> as checking it for straight.  There's a bushing in
> the clutch end of the 
> input shaft, for the pushrod, so check it for wear. 
> It's smart to replace 
> that bushing if at all worn as well as the seal.  A
> dry clutch disk is a 
> happy clutch disk.
>   Otherwise it'd be stuff like a bent pressure plate
> finger/s, object in the 
> clutch area, failed shock spring in the clutch disk,
> etc.
>      Loren
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