[Vwdiesel] not done yet

[Gary, Orlando]

Hi,
Sounds like the clutch isn't disengaging enough. Is the free-play
adjusted properly?

I have only experienced two clutch failures in my entire life.

1) On a Fiat 128, one of the clutch dampening springs popped out of it
hole and essentially locked the disc and the flywheel/pressure plate
together.

2) On a Dodge Omni(VW 1.7 eng/trans) all of the clutch facings separated
from the disc and there was no coupling what-so-ever.

2-1/2) On a VW bug, the clutch cable snapped. We had to "double-clutch"
with out the clutch to shift gears. On start, we killed the engine at a
stop, placed the car in first, and started the car 'in-gear' and took
off. Worked pretty well for a month until we had time to pull the engine
to fix.

-Gary, Orlando


On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 15:08, Holly wrote:
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> Hi all,
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>   I wrote I got my daughters car runing.  She drove it two days and last =
night while I was work on nightshift I get a call that the car won't shift =
in any gear.  I got it home this morning and this afternoon I looked at it.=
  The clutch cable is intact and it moves the lever.   As the car shifts in=
to the gears you can watch the shift linkage appearing to shift into each g=
ear properly.  Also, on the way home for her that night the speedometer sto=
pped.  The car did shift hard since I got it running a couple days ago. Som=
etimes fairly difficult getting it into 1st gear, the car is a 4 speed.  I =
thought it's probably the clutch, but wouldn't you be able to get it into a=
 gear with the engine off.  Any idea's out there. Thanks again.
>
> Dave
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